'Be Right Back"

I guess it's safe to assume that Be Right Back is one of the most controversial assessments of ethical practices we've discussed this year. I don't say that just because there was a robot that posed as a human in the most hair-raising of ways, or because said robot mimicked sexual acts via learning through porn sites (though I must say that was a bit hysterical). I say that because when you watch Black Mirror and evaluate the episode "Be Right Back", there rises this question of how much of our emotions play into our moral reasoning. As people, regardless of how much we may try to convince ourselves that we don't make all or important decisions based on emotions, we do in fact let our emotions be a factor in every aspect of our lives. In Be Right Back, we see how Martha's resolve to not invite this imitating technological Ash into her life is swayed by her emotional states. At first, after his death, she refuses the idea because thinking of Ash is simply too much, but then as she discovers that she is pregnant she becomes vulnerable and caves to her emotions. She becomes attached to a digital Ash so much that she invest in a robotic life like one. However, once the robotic Ash comes into her life and the actuality of the situation becomes present we can see her emotions start to change as the magnitude of the situation she's put herself in has become evident and that's when a key question comes to mind for me:  How do we deal with acknowledging that sometimes we let out curiosity and our emotions have too much power? When do we acknowledge that we made the bitter realization that we were wrong too late? I think that those questions are the reason that Martha tried to kill the robot, and I think that those types of questions could be the reason why at the end of the episode she stood motionless at the bottom of the latter. Her moment of weakness, her moment of not yielding herself to control her emotions and let Ash go, landed her with a robotic problem that'll last forever.