Her affection meter starts off at 0% and must be at least 60% filled before she even enters Girlfriend-Mode. There's even an guide included that's filled with helpful tips and suggestions on how to quickly fill her meter. (It's like when you buy a blender or an oven and it comes with a small recipe book included.)
Oh, what's that, "Why would you buy an Android wife that requires you to charm it like a real girl?" you ask. Well it's because SOME people enjoy the challenge OK. That said, she is a very unpopular model and there have been a few lawsuits regarding some very disgruntled and lonely customers but don't worry about that.
Strange how you can just buy an android while android rights exists. Most likely the dude bought her from some sort of black market.
Or it's like some sci-fi books and on manufacture she was handed the debt of her construction. He didn't buy the girl but rather her indentured servitude. She has to serve him until she has bought herself off, but commands like (be my girlfriend) are forbidden by robot rights.
Or it's like some sci-fi books and on manufacture she was handed the debt of her construction. He didn't buy the girl but rather her indentured servitude. She has to serve him until she has bought herself off, but commands like (be my girlfriend) are forbidden by robot rights.
But that still slams face-first into the biggest problem with buying and selling androids and gynoids that have rights: If they count as people, it's slavery.
If they're sentient beings that you allow to be born into slavery, you also happen to practically guarantee a robot uprising scenario because you've made sure that every synthetic being in your society was born into slavery, and therefore have a very good reason to detest organics. (The same goes for if they're sentient, but you declare them not to be people so that it's not technically slavery - they now have every reason to spend all their free cycles plotting the demise of humanity.)
However, if you're not going to enslave them, then there's suddenly much less reason to ever build them in the first place. After all, who's going to spend money to buy a robot that then says that they don't like you and walks out? Worse still, if the whole point of mechanization is to get robots to do work because maintaining a robot is cheaper than hiring lots of humans, then you're suddenly faced with having to pay a salary to a sentient citizen robot. They might be superhumanly efficient enough to be worth dozens of humans, but if they're capable of leaving their job and going to work for a competitor (much less unionizing), then they may be able to demand pay several times that of a human.
If androids and gynoids can choose their own fate, the only system that would make sense outside of hard-coding a desire to do some certain job (which may itself be ethically and constitutionally dubious) is to have someone with the resources to gamble on building massive batches of AIs, letting them develop to maturity, and then renting them out by taking a cut of their earnings. You'd pretty much need to be either the manufacturer or a government to do that on a large enough scale.
(Then again, the "government builds them, they get adopted by human families to learn about humanity, then get assigned jobs after growing up" route is pretty much how it goes in Narue no Sekai, which is exactly why it's one of my favorite accidentally-much-more-thoughtful-than-it-looks mangas...)
My guess is that she may have been part of an initially military project to create robotic soldiers, considering her capabilities in the previous page. Either already built in or modified in, getting mini missiles could be a legal mess in itself. Maybe have scraped the project once the AI got too advance and became self-aware upon activation which would probably cause a major rights event.
Eventually could be settled that all the units were then slightly modified to fit in society with the production facility selling the debt of their creation as the other comment mentioned, kinda like collection companies buy debt. But also with the rights and condtions the unit could follow to eventually own their person.
Possibly also assigning all responsibility to the buyers until the unit pays off the debt and enforcement organizations also having access to a kill switch system in a worst case scenario which the unit could be aware off as a warning of what can happen.
Humanoid-Robot Rights have always been a mess to deal with; not even the likes of I, Robot or Detroit: Become Human dealt with the issue seriously because of said mess.
post #3403295 reveals that they are considered property until they buy themselves. Perhaps only "free" robots have rights. Unless as I speculated that certain orders are forbidden.
Strange how you can just buy an android while android rights exists. Most likely the dude bought her from some sort of black market.
Realistically, rights for robots wouldn't be for the robot's protection, but for the integrity of society. You don't want a person doing heinous things to a robot which desensitizes them to that kind of behavior and increases their propensity to do the same to an actual human if given the chance. Behavior is largely a factor of habit so you don't want people to be trained to treat other humanoid looking things in real life poorly. Hence I can see laws where people are required to treat robots like a human out of courtesy.
Same kind of reasoning why you can't streak naked in public in most of the world, and stuff like that. Doesn't actually hurt anyone, but it does result in undesirable disturbance of the peace. Likewise, while I don't believe the notions that things like playing video games makes one want to be a killer, without a doubt, exposure to such topics (particularly when young) is a major influence in the propensity of one to do violence/crime. Many criminals are known to get inspirations from entertainment mediums like movies and video games, however I don't believe the decision to do crime was the fault of those mediums, just the particular methods chosen.
I mean, I totally can see a stupid activist group like a radical version of animal rights advocacy but one where they put mechanized "life" over human lives as "reparations" for decades of technological slavery. We will probably be remembered in history as heinous slave owners, using our computers (which I guess in an era of androids could be viewed as a mentally retarded robot child) to look at anime tits. However, I don't think society would entertain that notion for very long, just like today very few people entertain the concept of an animals life being greater priority than that of a human.
EDIT: Also cute AF couple. I ship this pairing hard (despite it being a bit weird when you consider she is basically a sex doll... but with weapons). INB4 Girls Frontline fan debates: "T-dolls are actually modified sex dolls" "No they aren't, REEEEEE,"