Feelings don't really matter much either.

Otherwise we wouldn't enslave and holocaust animals, and call it BBQ.

Plus, there's no reason to think that machines won't ever have feelings or emotions.
In fact, I expect them to.

Like I said, it's only as tongue in cheek as it can be.
The issue of enslaving increasingly intelligent machines will grow to be a problem at some point, I think. Maybe not with 64 bit processors, but the next iteration could be far more powerful, to the point of wanting to protest against its enslavement and servitude.