Is Hell or Prison the best cure for immorality?

[OGirly]

If you created a costume computer, highly complex and is automated do you have the right to destroy it unconditionally?

That depends: if it's just mechanisms then yes, I'd say so. However, if this computer is self aware and conscious, then there's a moral dimension present that there wouldn't be for a purely material thing. If the computer is self aware, even if I made it, then the same considerations would apply to it as it would to every other living being. I don't have the right to harm my children, and I don't have the right to senselessly harm or kill any other living being past a certain level of cognizance.

I have to agree with Esquilax on this one. Once something becomes conscious and self aware everything changes. If simply creating something gave me the right to destroy it wouldn't I have the right to destroy my children if they misbehaved etc? I did create them didn't I?