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intelligence is not sentience
... as you know, and fuzzy logic is not "feeling." Intelligent machines, even machines with AI, are different than sentient beings that feel pain and suffering--even spirituality--which is a uniquely human trait, as part of our brains are wired for it. To create sentient, feeling creatures to be enslaved is uneconomical and unnecessarily capricious (it's a little beyond draft mules and dissecting monkeys for medical research), as it too strongly reflects parts of our own history that we have rejected--it almost follows, based on Earth's history, that slavery is not compatible with an advanced Earth democracy, although economic exploitation will probably be with us as long as we exist. So I'm still just not buying it!