Is this actually true. (BTW, Im british, and I fine british politics to amusing to look at american ones).
If so, surely its turing-machine cruelty, as the bots are part of the computer, so its computer cruelty (Oh god, a new meaning to cyber bullying)...
Next we'll be going to the pharmacist to get rid of computer viruses...Hopefully they wont store the cure on 'a big model of the save symbol'
Anyway...What happens if we programmed a humans DNA in darwinbots format, because thats genetic engineering, on a human in theory. which is illegal. And then what if we developed a virus to target that human, thats even more inhumane and illegal.
Oh lord, Im turning into a digital mass murderer.