audience: laudna

[mygod]

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[mygod]

I see.

[ clearly trying not to laugh ]

Typically you have to do something to turn a machine back on again, after you shut it down.

[undread]

Hit it again...?

[mygod]

... do you want help fixing it? If it can be fixed?

[undread]

Yes. Gale tried, and it didn't help.

[mygod]

Hm... we can take a look.

[ of to see the robot they go ]

Why did you break it in the first place?

[undread]

I told you. It was crying for help. It sounded as though it was in pain. I wanted to do something to help it.

[mygod]

Hm...

Robots shouldn't be able to feel pain. Typically they aren't built with the sensors necessary to process the sensation.

[undread]

I think they can. They can do magic and have souls, too.

[mygod]

I understand that is your experience, but it might not hold up here.

If a robot has pain sensors, someone needs to design it that way.

[undread]

...Well, maybe they did design it that way. Why not? Pain is useful, after all.

[mygod]

Would you create a doll that can feel pain?

[ they approach the robot now and famine will look over it, curious ]

If we are to turn it on and cannot fix its pain, do you think it would be better to leave it awake or turn it off again?

[ might as well ask now before they're left in a pretty sadistic position ]

[undread]

...Yes! I might!

[but she's very fucked up.]

If there's no way to fix its pain, certainly we ought to turn it off.

[mygod]

... to feel only pain...? Or would it feel other things too?

[ but famine will nod then, going to tinker around with the robot. there is a feeling of idle intellectual curiosity, interacting with unfamiliar mechanics ]

If that is your decision, then.

[undread]

Well, if I could, to feel everything! Like Pâté can...