I feel bad for a machine is this healthy

There is nothing wrong with feeling bad for it. Our future existence rests in becoming robots. We make this robot "suffer" so we can one day become like him and feel nothing. A time when we can be subjected to this same suffering and feel nothing. This robot is a goddamn hero. A true pilgrim of our time. Don't worry too much about feeling bad for it. One day you won't feel that anyways.

>>38359979

that was deep anon. I hope when household robots become as common place as PCs, we'll feel some sense of affinity towards them and treat them like other people to avoid the inevitable robot uprising

That robot looks humanoid, and it moves as though it is alive and sentient.

Your empathy response relies not on the subject ACTUALLY feeling pain, but whether or not you subconsciously believe it can feel pain. And your subconscious brain is very primitive. It sees something moving as though it is alive and sentient, so it believes it is alive and sentient.

If your subconscious could tell that the robot did not feel anything, then you would not feel empathy for it.

Basically... it's very very normal to feel at least a little bit bad for the robot.

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>>38360192
I'd probably feel more for a robot than any human in my life anyway.