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http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4083103/18/'On the wider legal front the precedents being set recently regarding AI's both in terms of Colonial and our laws might have some interesting long-term consequences' he said. 'I officiated over an extremely lively debate between law students last week who were arguing about the clans new cylon and half-cylon citizens' he told her. 'It throws up an interesting hypothetical as how smart or sapient an artificial intelligence might have to be to qualify for legal rights, the Star League at its height created AI's after all so, as one promising student pointed out, we could be caught out if the computer sciences people in the next building ever repeated that work.'
'Sharon Valerii isn't software in a box' Vaun pointed out.
'No but based on what we know of Cylon technology she wasbefore she was downloaded into a physical body Lord Protector' the judge noted before he laughed. 'Another more irreverent student suggested that if it's true that Sharon Valerii is going to be allowed to marry the father of her child as the press reported then hypothetically would another man be able to wed an unusually bright android made for sex?' he asked rhetorically.
'Funny, but it's not exactly the same thing' Vaun replied. 'Cylons and humans can interbreed.'
'Ah but if reproduction is the criteria then should we disenfranchise those who are unable to produce children?' Whatworth replied. 'We already have a few citizens who are deemed to have absorbed a few too many rads to safely produce offspring naturally so they use the Iron Wombs instead, often with DNA from the clans genetic repository' he said. 'Our hypothetical human/sexbot married couple could easily have children the same way.'
Vaun blinked. 'This isn't exactly something I had considered' she admitted.
'I'd say something about politicians making quick decisions with unforeseen legal consequences down the line but I'd be hauled up on it I'm sure' the judge quipped, earning a momentary glare. A basic flaw of democracy was of course that it ensured government by amateurs who just happened to win an election, by its very nature it was going to be messy. 'In order to gain my place in the legal books I'll volunteer right now to marry the two of them to each other though, I know of at least one other judge who would be loathe to do it and they certainly wouldn't get a religious wedding on eitherside of the border I'd imagine' he said.
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