Well... I'll admit that Noah thinks he has a need whenever he builds a self-aware android, but he could have just hired somebody for almost any of the positions he needed to fill. (The sole exception being, oddly enough, Kohran - every flesh-type person with the skill set Noah needed for his weapons engineer works for one of the more powerful national governments. Even he's not rich enough to hire somebody away from that sort of job.) In one case, he had hired somebody to do a job for him before he built an AI for the task - Miyuri replaced Patty as Chief ATC Officer, and Noah had to find something else for Patty to do. (She'll end up in charge of Station Oddessy once it's finished and towed to Mars orbit in early 2015.)
Alex's behaviour towards Roll is the same as Noah's behaviour towards his "angels". So far, only two have chosen to walk away, and he gave each of them enough money to last them for a few months. They're not slaves, they shouldn't be treated as anything less than human, and anyone who says otherwise isn't welcome on his station. (If he ever discovers what we know from what I've posted of Cosmic Party - that Yuu was built as a weapon to be used against him - he'll start to actually hate the people responsible for her creation. But he won't hate Yuu.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Alex's behaviour towards Roll is the same as Noah's behaviour towards his "angels". So far, only two have chosen to walk away, and he gave each of them enough money to last them for a few months. They're not slaves, they shouldn't be treated as anything less than human, and anyone who says otherwise isn't welcome on his station. (If he ever discovers what we know from what I've posted of Cosmic Party - that Yuu was built as a weapon to be used against him - he'll start to actually hate the people responsible for her creation. But he won't hate Yuu.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012