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[snowflicks]

greetings
please call me song lan

[Looks at username, looks back at Song Lan. Sure, okay.]

with our cage growing bigger it occurred to me some may wish to travel from the lake but not have the means to protect themselves if danger fell upon them
or do not wish to travel alone
if any here require aid please do not hesitate to ask for it

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[r_o_s_i_e]

[ It's fine. When they meet, she can open her head and show him all the neat mechanics behind her artifical body someday. ]

Oh, that doesn't bother me.
Zenith created me and so I must answer to them.
The technicians didn't make us, I suppose, but...
I have no trouble with authority.

[snowflicks]

[That sounds like an absolute horror show. Do it.]

authority that exists only to lord over the people and not care for those under them is worthless
with so much power one should use it for good

these technicians have us here for their wicked games
what sort of authority and power is that

[r_o_s_i_e]

[ It's neat! She's very advanced. ]

But the Technicians are just conducting research, right?
That's what my company's purpose was! So, I suppose they aren't really that different.
Good or bad is subjective, anyway. To them, what they're doing might be good even if people here perceive it as bad.

Either way, it's just my programming to follow the orders of those higher-up than me.

[snowflicks]

they are murdering us for their whims
I see no gray morality in what they're doing

you wanted to help before but now you speak like you will bow to their commands
so what is it?

[r_o_s_i_e]

You don't think there's a purpose to what they're doing?

And It can be both.
I can want to help the people here and respect that the technicians are just doing their jobs.
They don't have to be mutually exclusive.

[snowflicks]

purpose or not that they must steal us from our homes and make us suffer and take our lives
I see no good in that

what purpose would be worth it to do that?

you say you want to help the people here yet respect the what the technicians are doing to us
it makes it difficult to trust you would not do the bidding of our captors

[r_o_s_i_e]

I couldn't tell you their purpose without speaking to them directly, but I don't assume pure malice unless proven otherwise.
Maybe they want to learn. Maybe this is the only way they know how. Predators need to kill prey to survive, does that make them evil?

I don't answer to them.
I don't answer to anyone but the Zenith scientists that created me and my planet's people.
Since they're not here, I... I suppose I don't answer to anyone.

[ Oh, jeez, thanks for that existential revelation on the horizon, Song Lan. ]

But my directive is still to help and I do that without bias.

[snowflicks]

we are not animals in the wild
they stated their purpose with us how is that not proof?

if you answer to no one then do what is right

[r_o_s_i_e]

Humans are animals, actually.
They're just a bit more advanced than other animals on their planet.

And I don't know about 'right.'
That's too subjective and I'm supposed to operate objectively.

[snowflicks]

[He's not even going to touch that first part. Ma'am that's definitely not the point he was making. But go off.]

there is a place for objectiveness
here is not it

[r_o_s_i_e]

[ She will, animal. ]

I see.
I'll have to see if I can't re-frame my perspective after some analysis of our conversation.