system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If a robot is programmed to kill, is the Robot Evil, or is the Programmer Evil?

Can the robot be found guilty or culpable of a murder if it was programmed to do so? Or should it be the Programmmer who is thrown in prison. Should the robot be reprogrammed? or destroyed for its actions?

Human beings are essentially blood machines, and are programming is our life experience, our education, our upbringing, and how we were parented.

If someone commits murder, are they really guilty or culpable? Or is it their education, or upbringing that is responsible?

If it's a person's upbringing and education (Their Programing) that causes them to murder and commit evil, then who do we imprison? Do we imprison the killer? Do we try have the killer committed to therapy to learn how to not be evil? Do we instead arrest the killer's parents? Do we institute new policies in our educations systems and way of life to help prevent violent tendencies in humans again?
gpt
> Human beings are essentially blood machines

That's a hard determinist assumption. It generally follows from that, unless you make some kind of compatibilist defense of freedom, that human beings are not morally responsible for anything they do.

However, many philosophers disagree with that, either by asserting the freedom of human will (and that we are *more* than blood machines; not necessarily beings with souls, but altogether different from automata), or by denying that its inexistence implies this moral vacuum. You should read up on metaphysical libertarianism and compatibilism.