That's kind of a disgusting thing to say, within the context of a discussing a film, which is all fiction and no humans or animals were harmed in its making.
Even so, that's nasty. For all intents and purposes, David was as human as Martin...or Monica, or Henry. He had emotions. His circuitry was designed to experience real emotion, just as our DNA is. The emotions weren't things David were displaying as part of a program. They were things he was feeling. His sense of loss, rejection, anbondonmrnt and a burning desire to be loved by his imprinted mother were as real as any child's.
I agree Monica did a crappy thing. It would have been far more "humane" to return him to Cybertronics where he could be deactivated.
Having said that, the designers were FU'd too. What a crappy design flaw to make the imprinting irreversible. Henry said it was necessary to protect them, but that's stupid. It didn't have to be any easier to deprogram him than it was to read that sequence of words to activate the imprinting. It's also a design flaw to have it so he can only imprint on one person. As was discussed, all humans will die eventually, but not the AI. There should be a way built-in to reprogram him if he goes to a new family.
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