I think that until bots, through AI, become sentient, there is no justification for bots to defend themselves from this type of abuse (not talking about security).
Several witnesses who described the showdown did not say one way or the other whether Brown rushed toward the police officer -- a surprising omission from the record, given that this was the justification Wilson used to defend his fatal shooting of the teen.
During the recent civil war, similar justifications were used to defend the use of military measures against separatist rebels, mostly Hindus belonging to the Tamil minority.
Many in the West have unfortunately accepted this justification and have hesitated to defend the rights of the people to oust leaders who have delegitimized themselves by killing peaceful protesters.
What ethical justifications could be offered to defend the randomization of these remaining patients into the control arm of the study, other than a justification (based upon a 'collective' rather than an 'individual' ethic) that sacrifices the best interests of these patients in favor of producing knowledge that will benefit future patients?
That was America's moral justification for sending our troops to defend Europe in the cold war against a Soviet Union determined to dominate the world.
When our civilized society is attacked, no matter what the justification, we will rise up to defend it.
At the time, "states' rights" was the justification used by Southern racists to defend Jim Crow laws, including school segregation, racial discrimination in restaurants and buses, severe limits on voting by African Americans, and bans on interracial marriage.
The accountants behind the report and Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin are due to appear before MPs on 26 November to defend their economic justifications for the railway.
None of this is intended to defend Berlusconi, whose only justification on the world stage was as a long-running experiment into what happens when you crossbreed Benny Hill with Vladimir Putin.
