Film Rating. Droids and xenophobia.

I find interesting that Star Wars Episodes I and II are rated PG (Parent Guidance). Not that I think is wrong, but we only have to change the droids for humans to see the rating change to PG-13. It is curious, but true. In that film the droids are killed in all possible ways, thrown into a riff, beheaded, dismembered and everything filmed in detail. Imagine the same scenes but with real people. The result, a good scene for Kill Bill.

Another film in which happens the same is I, Robot. When I saw the trailers I thought to myself "it will be a robotic massacre trip for sure", I wasn't wrong. That attitude to aggression against other beings seems to me something to be preoccupied. It's clear that they are not equal, but just for that difference do we must admit violence and aggression against them? Just because they don't feel, just because they are not… humans.

I always have liked to think about droid thinking. About if they can feel or not, no matter if they don’t exist. So often, being able to feel is considered the most important quality. Lieutenant Commander Data explore it on Star Trek The Next Generation. He wants to be human. In contrast, they’re many times in which his comrades tell him that he has behave in a way more human than any other.

We know well that life forms not necessary feel. Do fungus feel? Do bacterium feel? Do virus feel? Do plants suffer when we cut off a branch? What is to feel? Is it possible to feel without showing emotions?

There’s too much to do against xenophobia. It is integrated in our culture. It is in front of us and we see nothing.