Obviously I don’t want to go too much into the details of the plot, because the last thing that I want to do is to spoil it for people. After all, robots aren’t alive, right? There’s even some stuff on how while you can use roboticide and homicide, the word “ murder” doesn’t seem to quite apply. In fact, the whole case here revolves around the murder of a robot, and so there’s a lot of discussion around whether such a thing is even possible. Then we have the morality side of things. We get some great examples of that here, including some suggestions of scenarios which could cause two of the laws to come into conflict with themselves and to cause a robot to overload. What’s fun about this book, like the other books that tie in with these laws, is that Asimov basically created them only so that he could bend and break them.
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