In
Star Wars, droids are everywhere. They are
machines created to
serve mankind (or
alienkind, whatever...). For some reason, droids are given
personalities. The
practical reasons for this may be that this helps provide droids with a sense of
creativity, which would be useful when trying to find a
solution to a
problem. The issue that this raises is that you now have a race of
sentient,
emotional beings, serving another without a
choice or
reward. This amounts to
slavery.
Some argue that since droids are
programmed to want to serve, this isn't the case, but I
disagree. If you
brainwash a person into wanting to
serve you, it's still
wrong. And creation of this species does not give the maker
rights to
dominate it, just like someone
cloning a human would not be allowed to rule his creation.
Slavery occurs when a being must serve another. The fact that droids are not rewarded for their efforts merely reinforces the fact that the
civilizations of the Star Wars universe have a basic
flaw in their
ethics code.
This doesn't, however, stop me from watching the movies
every week.