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- Title
YOU MAY KISS THE AI: AN ANALYSIS OF WHETHER RATIONALES FOR LEGALIZING SOME NONTRADITIONAL MARRIAGES ALSO JUSTIFY LEGALIZING HUMAN-ROBOT MARRIAGE.
- Authors
Walter, Nicholas J.
- Abstract
The definition of marriage continues to expand. As it has done so, numerous premises have been posited to justify legalizing marriage for some nontraditional couples. This Comment studies these premises and examines whether they also support expanding the definition of marriage to include human-robot couples. Similar research has centered on what marriage is, should be, or will be. Some have argued the traditional definition of marriage -- one man and one woman bound together in a conjugal union for life -- is the correct definition and should not be changed. Others have disagreed, saying this definition precludes homosexual and other nontraditional couples from marrying and thus should be changed. However, no one has examined the logical reasoning driving changes in marriage law. There are no legal analyses outlining whether arguments in favor of changing the traditional definition of marriage also apply to human-robot couples. This Comment argues that the same premises used to justify expanding marriage to allow some nontraditional couples to marry also logically justify legalizing marriage for human-robot couples.
- Subjects
MARRIAGE; HUMAN-robot interaction; MARRIAGE law; ROBOTS; COUPLES
- Publication
Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science & Technology, 2020, Vol 60, Issue 3, p353
- ISSN
0897-1277
- Publication type
Article