Talk:Reason (short story)

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I think the point Asimov was trying to make is that robots, as Asimov elsewhere states through Calvin, "Are essentially decent," and that it doesn't matter why a robot, or implicitly a person, acts decently. Asimov, who was an agnostic Humanist (in that he believed that there was either no God, or a Deist God, but in either case mankind needed to do things itself), was trying to express the universality of morality even in the absence of a common faith--a message we in the US could use right now.

I think the story summary needs a sentence or two stating this more explicitly.

We don't include people's opinions in Wikipedia; that's considered Original Research. If you find a printed citation, like in a book of criticism, it's likely that could be included.--Prosfilaes 12:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • shrug* I don't know if it's really original research... the meaning of the story is about as subtle as a sock full of pennies to the back of the head. But fair enough.