Misplaced empathy was the theme of PKD’s “Balde Runner” (or “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.”) The book, that is… not the movie. The moral error in the b

Misplaced empathy was the theme of PKD’s “Balde Runner” (or “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.”) The book, that is… not the movie. The moral error in the book was humans wrongly thinking machines were sentient. The movie turned this theme in its head, where the moral error was humans failing to appreciate the machines were sentient. Anyway, I always found the book’s theme was far more interesting. Great harm can come from humans attributing sentience to an unthinking inanimate object. It’s human nature to fall into this odd quagmire, be it idolatry, omens, astrology, and even silicon sex dolls… Creepy.