Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
There are probably a couple of hundred people in the world who I would miss on a personal level (probably a lot less). I think that this is true for most people. Everyone else is just a massive sea of forgettable, replaceable beings: do I care if a machine or a person made my clothes or my car? Do I care what happened to the people involved? Frankly, no.
On a personal level, yes. I would say that I am capabble of empathising and rationalizing beyond a personal level though.
I would prefer if my stuff were made by a machine.