Video from Wednsday

 The black mirror video we watched on Wednsday about Martha and her husband was peculiar in a fascinating way. It was like watching the future and a vague similarity to technicality today. Morally wise, the video was very frustrating. We all experience death throughout our life, some of us being more emotional, don’t know how to handle it. In this case, Martha didn’t know how to handle ash’s death very well, which led her to take consequential decisions. I believe that her pregnancy had a huge role in her desision making. Her hormones made her more emotional and susceptible to the idea of being able to talk to him. I know this from personal experience. He died before she knew that she was pregnant. This made her want to tell him, even thought telling him meant telling a robot. It’s not sinister in a gostly way, but it’s sinister in the idea of how realistic the robot sounds and how human like the robot is. She was way more attached to the voice than the robot though. It was obvious that she felt like it was really him when she talked on the phone, unlike the robot she bought. If those robots were to exist today, I think many people would not be mentally healthy. The robots are easy to manipulate, they do whatever the owner wants them to. Ash’s robot clone refused to hit Martha when she yelled at him to, but whose to say that it won’t listen to a man. Maybe he refused to hit her because she was a woman, and he was a “ man.” If it were to be told to hurt someone or a crowd of people, it might listen. This would lead to an increase of terrorism around the world. The creation of these robots would be detrimental to society as a whole, not just a single persons health. Martha was in a way attached to the robot, and she didn’t want to get rid of it because she would feel as though she was killing ash or loosing him all over again. That would be the reason she kept him hidden in her attic for years and even let their child interact with him.