wondering if one of the reasons clones in star wars were treated as less-than-human was bc of the proliferation of droids: that perhaps natborns had become so used to having servants and helpers who had no souls that even when faced with human servants (i.e. the clones) they dismissed them as non-people ....
...and thinking about if there's a correlation to the use of chatgpt and ai chatbots in our own world: how the use of them can dramatically diminish human empathy in the user, the ai echo chamber causing us to become more self-centered and less willing to recognize and respect other humans...






















