Neoteny wrote: And this statement finally exposes that you have no morality of your own, and that you simply follow whatever rule they throw out there. You realize this is the same mentality that permitted slavery, segregation, and genocides, most notably, the holocast? But no worry, mother machine knows what's best, doesn't she? Certainly, she hasn't killed bluepills before. Oh wait...
As for her "release" - why don't you go fetch her release date from the agents? Or is that information too classified for someone of a human security clearance level? They knew she wanted nothing to do with them and that she would almost certainly seek EPN out again if freed.
But it's funny, really, how you can say that they're oh-so confused about the entire situation, yet cognizant enough to escape your clutches and "be in bed with 'terrorists'" in the same breath. Which is it? Are they too low on the totem pole to understand the world around them? Or do they freely and willingly aid and abide "terrorists?" You can't have your cake and eat it too.
I don't think you've any say in whether or not she was "condemned" to begin with, nor do I think you have any voice to say that EPN forced her into it. If you might take a gander at their bluepill log, they had, for a while, classified her as one not to be awakened, yet you forced their hand by abducting (a word I and many others clearly define as the forced movement and holding of someone against their own will) Theresa Morton, making the red pill the only way for her to evade Machine pursuit. She never would have escaped government custody within the Matrix and even if she had attempted to by running every day and every night, can you really call that a better existance than the truth she was already interested in, found in the Real? You would call that a comfortable existence? She would have found only overwrite or death within the Matrix, with overwrite being as good as death.
Most of humanity can find a somewhat comfortable, or, at the very least, satisfying existence in the Real and the very fact that you would even mention Cypherites as a "counterexample" shows that you're grabbing for straws. But I see far more Cypherites than I do Machinists these days anyway. Funny how those tunes changed when they told you to start fighting us. Funny how awakenings suddenly became highest felony. Hilarious how two once distinct factions, one which supported the Machines and worked in close cooperation with Zion for over two years suddenly has become indistinct from the one which has worked to eliminate freedom and promote control from the beginning.
I don't know that I even see Machinists anymore. And I wonder how many of them can see themselves for that man in the mask and the cold eyes staring back at them through the mirror's glass.
The rules have been this way since the beginning, they were there in civilised human society since before AI and again within the simulation. It's called law, morality has nothing to do with following laws that are not unjust. The arresting of a person suspected of aiding terrorists is not unjustified. If I had no morality I would not have been opposed to Pace's sanction of a bluepill murder. I was.
Her choice of aiding you does not mean she knew enough about the simulation to warrant awakening. Curiosity is one thing wanting out and away from the law is another. Even according to your bluepill log, she wasn't ready. Do you think she was in her right mind after the events a week or two earlier? Did you give her a psyche evaluation? She didn't exactly escape her detention of her own abilities did she, she had the intervention of you 'Crusaders'. And yes, you condemned her as soon as you insisted on breaking her out of legal detention. EPN used her arrest (a word that is defined by a legal forced movement and holding of someone against their own will) as an excuse to make her choose. Funny how it used to be those who wanted out of the simulation should be freed, now it's just anyone who is in trouble with the authorities. You are unable to say that she wouldn't have been released, you cannot say she would have been overwritten. You only make these accusations to further justify your actions.
I don't see how stating that Cypherites is clutching at straws. They are Humans who preferred life in the Simulation, did you take that into consideration when you see increasing numbers of them, within the simulation? I also gave Danielle Wright as an example, is that clutching at straws too?
You obviously aren't looking very hard at the two factions. One is willing to commit to violence whenever possible while the other would prefer to proceed in alternative ways, but Zion and EPN are the cause of many people's attitudes changing. Zion was sanctioned to wake potentials during the truce, that changed once you broke it so yes, you actions while trespassing within the simulation are seen as felony's. I find it hilarious that you are unable to make the distinction between murdering group of masked to whom violence is the only way to achieve anything and would rather see humanity sleep permanently and a group of people who work to better relations between mankind and machinekind in an aim to get them to eventually live together for mutual benefit. Zion and EPN actions are destroying what Machinists are working for so we have no choice but take steps against you. However as always, Machinists prefer alternative ways to achieve objectives such as taking a suspect into custody and questioning her rather than, for example, simply killing her.
We are not the only ones who have killed bluepills. I seem to remember a new redpill program, that wasn't tested enough, used on a bluepill who didn't make it. Do you blame that on the Machines? Do you blame them because they were at war with you and were exploiting a security hole? How about looking further into why they were at war with you, why they were exploiting that security...
