Because the androids allegedly have no ability to appreciate the existence of another, i.e., they lack empathy, the world condemns them as inhuman. But a closer examination of androids reveals that they do, in fact, have empathy, but not for humans or animals, only for each other. Rachael, for example, risks her life numerous times for other androids; her position as test model for Rosen Associations is perfectly safe, yet she puts her life on the line to prevent bounty hunters from retiring more androids (201). Roy Baty loves Irmgard (223), and Rachael had been very close friends (199) with Luba Luft. This supports the conjecture that androids do possess empathy, at least for each
Because the androids allegedly have no ability to appreciate the existence of another, i.e., they lack empathy, the world condemns them as inhuman. But a closer examination of androids reveals that they do, in fact, have empathy, but not for humans or animals, only for each other. Rachael, for example, risks her life numerous times for other androids; her position as test model for Rosen Associations is perfectly safe, yet she puts her life on the line to prevent bounty hunters from retiring more androids (201). Roy Baty loves Irmgard (223), and Rachael had been very close friends (199) with Luba Luft. This supports the conjecture that androids do possess empathy, at least for each