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An stimulated brain is the important part of the equation. Imagine yourself being inside of a house for most of the day but you can't do anything with any of the objects in it, you can do very little but sleep. Now make 70% of your life nothing but that
It might be "better" than being in the wild fighting for your life each day, but your brain would certainly desire more than being on a couch all day. A dog owner should at least think about that before getting something like a dachshund and treating it like a house plant for most of its life but gonna leave it at that

And I do disagree with the second part too to some extend. Yeah a robot that can't feel pain is certainly not as bad as one that can suffer, but this could still enable people who know they can enact in their sadistic desires without repercussion. I don't think it is the worst thing ever but I certainly don't wanna live in a world in which people can casually buy a super cute robot girl, then break her for fun or engagement bait "but its fine cuz she's just an object".
Call me autistic or a weirdo for caring so much about an object but the idea of people destroying something beautiful just for fun and going the extra mile to go for something resembling a human being instead of just breaking some toaster pisses me off deeply (and I already hate people who hate machines for fun), I just love robot girls too much to want that to be a common thing in the real world. In my eyes it is only natural to at least take proper care of an artificial humanoid that can do nothing but serve us, even if it can't feel and lacks sentience.