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or do they just throw the laws out of the window, making them just be broken?
Yes.

In one example Asimov sets up a scenerio where a robot has to kill a human to prevent the death of another human (both first law violations). In this case, however, the damage done to the robot by killing a human would render it inoperable. So a robot can kill a human if the circumstances are right, but it will have drastic consequences. In the movie this is clearly not the case, as they have robots going around attacking humans without any consequence at all.

In the movie they clearly did not understand the strength or purpose of the three laws, jettisoning them by the end so they could get on with the "evil robot" plot.

Oh, and Dr. Calvin being emotionally attached to a robot without the three laws is so out of her character (as described by Asimov) that it's clear the writers didn't understand her in the least. The one time in the stories she was confronted with a robot who had a partial removal of the first law she immediatly called for hundreds of robots to be destroyed to make sure the one (who was hiding among them) would not continue to operate. She was *serious* when it came to the three laws.
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