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Tao Stoic 82

"Master, many people are afraid of robots, what do you think of that?"

"I agree entirely with their views."

"But Master, I just do not recognise you! Afraid of physics?"

"I meant of course our generation, mens as robots, especially youth, that consists entirely of robots. I mean the people for whom, as Asimov said, 'life is a way of passing time until they die'. The mechanical robots, the purely physcical, are Naturally harmless, mere tools like wrenches or screwdrivers. It is the robot made out of a living human, servility, that is lethally dangerous."

"Luckily you leave out the scientists Master."

"But I don't! Apart from the pop-bastards that have mutilated our generations mentally, there are scientists who, like the robot we sent to Mars, are only highly inventive exploration machines. They experiment with DNA exchange, so that it could kill all life on the planet in a day or two. A sane man, at this point, would resign and become a carpenter or hairdresser. Not so with Roboid humans! They cuddle and twiddle with disaster, AND they'll set it loose!"


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Ven 2005-01-24