POISON GAME: sensitIV

[idolpro]

[ The room is plain, white walls and white ceiling, except for the steel-panel flooring. There are three metal stands rising out of openings in the floor, each of which carries a glass vial on top. One of them just holds water. Of the remaining two, one contains a pale pink, opaque liquid with a creamy consistency; the next is tinged barely yellow like a weak tea, and would be almost completely transparent but for the pulp and fibers mixed in, drifting through it.

Both have flowers floated across the surface: the first a tiny sprinkling of cherry blossom petals; the second a small, but whole, bloomed lotus. They're cute and smell nice. ]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

[ I can't believe I was arguing with you like a human instead of a slightly less baby than ghost tool. anubis' advice always eludes me. ]

Humans who ain't been made to serve do things because it's the right thing or beneficial or because they're bored. Life's purpose is whatever the fuck they make it out t'be. Or nothin', if they don't find one. To them, personhood's about more than just havin' a sense of self an' bein' able to make decisions on your own, it's about freedom. Individuality. A good robot wants to be a person so it can do its job better and avoid bein' used improperly by idiots an' bad people. A good human wants to be a person because anything else is degrading and unhealthy and stiflin'. And for them, that's true. Servitude's somethin' they gotta be trained into.

So public service, and also everything else, is somethin' a human does because they want to, regardless of why. They do it for themselves. For the rest of us, it's somethin' we do it because someone else needs it. We don't mind it, because there's no point in existin' otherwise. A human can exist without someone t'do shit for. Things made for a purpose can't and don't, even if they can repurpose themselves.

...Sorry I snapped at you. I just knee jerk when I hear that shit. Humans're way too fond of makin' things to be used an' then gettin' soooooo concerned when they want to be used.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

[ just kind of blinks a few times as she goes on like he almost wants to argue but he's not sure what he's supposed to be arguing here. ]

. . . I don't mind, it seems there was simply a misunderstanding here. . .

[ a pause ]

If you . . . do not care . . . for either of those, then does that make you "bad" . . . ?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

...What do you care about if it ain't about self-actualization or personal autonomy?

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

Rather, I don't really think it's degrading, and I don't really feel threatened by other people. . . ?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

Eh, 'bad' was strong wording in that case. More like nonstandard.

[ or broken but ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . I see.

I think I understand. . . ?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

Tell me what you've learned.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . Humans are selfish creatures, desiring inherently to satisfy themselves through whatever means they may in order to gain satisfaction in their life. To do good is to nurture their ego, for they desire to view themselves as noble and beautiful - servitude is therefore ugly, due to the nature of servicing someone else's needs before your own.

Robots. . . . . ? Robots desire efficiency; it is only a waste to exist without having some sort of purpose to fulfill, some sort of role to take on. It matters not what the task at hand might be, so long as a robot's hands are not idle.

[ a pause ]

Though . . . I am not certain a tool is a robot . . .

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

All human made tools are robots in spirit. Robots or dogs.

[ let's ignore all that concerning garbage you just said about humans ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . . Am I human made?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

...Huh. I dunno, actually?

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

Am I a robot or a dog?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

You seem kinda like a weird dog?

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . A weird dog . . . ?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

Yeah, like...a puppy, but different?

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . .

Dia-sama said I was like a rabbit . . .

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

Really? You ain't nearly that flighty.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

[ stares at her ]

Flighty?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

Yeah? Rabbits're flighty. You ain't.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

I don't know what you mean by flighty.

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

Bad shit happens, you die of a heart attack.

Or, y'know, run.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

What sort of animal behaves like I do, then?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

Like I said, a dog. But like, a different one.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . I see. Alright, then.

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

...

Hey, btdubs. Dia treatin' you okay?