1. What are the advantages/disadvantages of a surrogate?
- Some advantages are that they are able to do things that humans cannot. They are more efficient and can perform tasks better. A human has more time for themselves. The disadvantages was as shown in the movie, you don't get to spend as much time with your spouse as you should. Everything is done by the robot leaving no "real" time with them.
2. Would you want to try a surrogate?
- I don't think I would want to try a surrogate. I think that we loose the true meaning of life. Everything would be so perfect in a world of surrogates and I think that in life we learn from our mistakes and we cherish memories making life interesting and with surrogates we would be limited to these things.
3. In the film, it says that 98 percent of the population uses surrogates. Why would society be so eager to be someone else--someone beautiful and perfect? What does this say about our society?
- I think that even today we strive to be perfect, because that what society defines as "pretty" so all of us people kind of have that mind-set to be perfect and fit in. It just goes to show how messed up society is.
4. In the film the company VSI's slogan is: Life...Only Better." If you experience something via surrogate--is it real? Is the experience better?
- I don't think that it is real because the surrogate is just a idea of something that you want to be. I don't think the experience is because it is just a model of what you want to be and your not really experiencing the real its just a virtual experience so you don't feel the same as if your were to experience for yourself as a human being.
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