By what measure is a (hu)man?: On mutants and vampires...

[kantrol]

Consider it this way.
Anything that once was human still is human (barring being completely genetically rewritten / borged)
That is to say, a humans corpse is still human, a human vampire (as opposed to a changeling vampire, or whatever else)
Same applies to zombies or whatever else.

Harm is causing physical injury or debilitation.

Causing damage to a vampire(or zombie) or otherwise crippling them is harming a human (unless there is some admin silliness with changeling vampires, or monkey vampires)

Yeah, this is incorrect. If it were correct, the AI would have to worry about harm caused to corpses via decomposition, gibbing or fire and so forth. Since robots do not have to worry about harm caused to corpses, we can conclude that, for for the purposes of the 3 laws of robotics, an innate quality of human beings is life. Because vampires and zombies are created from the bodies of deceased human beings(i.e. a corpse)*, the 3 laws of robotics do not apply to the reanimated dead or else the AI/borgs would have to give a shit about damage to all corpses.

*In every literary interpretation of either zombies or vampires that I'm familiar with, they are created from the corpse of a deceased human.


In either case, admins have already said that the 3 laws of robotics do not apply to confirmed vampires.

I've always stood by vampires and zombies being human, but dead humans. Nothing you can do can harm somebody who's already dead.

Yeah, that's my take on it. Nothin' wrong with borgs or the AI harming a zombie or vampire, but they'd better be goddamn sure it's a vampire.