Life or Something Likes It

Another me and Teresa conversation:

Me: If you create an artificial life form that genuinely, to the fiber of its being, enjoys something you find disgusting, demeaning, and distasteful, and you deny them that, would that be morally worse than having created them in the first place?

Teresa: Just because your robot likes being sprayed by a skunk doesn’t make it a good thing.

And there you have it.