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One of the really interesting philosophical aspects of Alien: Isolation were the Working Joe synthetics. In a future where androids can easily pass for human, Joes are designed to be conspicuously robotic but still humanoid. From the wiki:
Unlike the human-resembling synthetics of Weyland-Yutani or Hyperdyne Systems, the Working Joes feature hairless rubber skin, LED eyes, a robotic voice and lack facial movement. While this may actually be a result of inferior technology and manufacturing by Seegson, the models are marketed as being purposely designed this way to make it obvious at a glance that they are synthetics, as opposed to the Weyland-Yutani models that can be easily mistaken for a human being. As such, Seegson heavily markets their product line towards humans who fear the ability of synthetics to pass themselves off as "real people".
Which is creepier: your partner that you've been dating for three years that's really a synthetic with frickin' milk for blood? Or a rubber-necked plastic dude with glowing eyes and a devastatingly polite accent?
Edit: I totally should've had one of them on fire 😁