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WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 23 Feb 2016, 05:20 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 Feb 2016, 23:13 ---"As long as everyone tries their best, that is what matters".
That's a high standard. Momo is not letting us off the hook at all.
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Maybe if you just do your best to do your best. Everyone's human fallible.
Veronica felt bad about a minor faux pas. The kind thing to do under those circumstances for the aggrieved party is to offer comfort and forgiveness. Momo came through brilliantly, which is what I'd expect from her. However, while I'd expect it, it would be wrong to take it for granted. Everyone's human fallible after all, and no-one (least of all me) lives up to our ideals all the time. Just do your best to do your best, and you won't go far wrong. That works for me, anyway.
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Exactly. The core of real religious teaching is a lesson that has appeared world wide in nearly every religion and ethical tradition & can be derived from secular thinking as well - treat others as you would want them to treat you & do not do to them what you would not want done to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule As has been said, the rest is "just commentary".
Both Momo and Veronica lived up to this BTW and provided a teaching that, while it may not be obvious at the moment, is the kind of thing that will linger in the back of Sam's mind informing her own behavior.
President Peaches:
For some reason this comic came to mind. http://humoncomics.com/ball-buster
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: BenRG ---the other AIs probably look upon him as one of the Elders
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We have a data point to confirm that. Remember how Pintsize reacted when he discovered Marten had been talking with Station himself?
Jakk Frost:
--- Quote from: sheenobu on 22 Feb 2016, 23:27 ---
--- Quote from: WoaLG on 22 Feb 2016, 23:13 ---I'd say it's a sign of acceptance. It's good that Veronica understands Momo's differences but she mostly interacts with other humans and human is her default mental model of a person. That she automatically lumps Momo in with the other people she cares about means she considers Momo equal to other people and not something "Other."
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Finding out you aren't part of someones default mental model of a person can be an alienating experience. I would consider it an off-the-cuff definition of Othering. I don't think Veronica did anything wrong but she does seem nervous about Momo. It makes me wonder what the QC AI timeline is? (I'm sure it's written down somewhere). Is Veronica not as used to AIs as the people her sons age?
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I don't think she's really nervous about Momo at all, she just got a little flustered about making what she perceived as a faux pas when she herself lives what general society views as an alternative lifestyle and hopes others would be as accepting of her as she is of them.
Personally I don't feel she made much of a faux pas in this particular instance though. She accepted and perceived Momo with no prejudice whatsoever, the way I see it, and by offering her cookies treated her no different than the other youngster in the room. It could even, in a way, be viewed as complimentary that for a moment she forgot Momo wasn't a "real girl". The bigger faux pas, if anything, might be that Veronica made such an issue of it afterwards.
I get that some disabled people, or people who are "different from the norm" can get upset when someone appears to forget that fact, using words like "unfeeling", "unempathic", and "alienating". They want these people not to remind them of their differences, and be mindful to not do anything that does remind them they're different. That just doesn't feel natural to me.
Personally, when one's friends forget, I view it as acceptance to the point that they just don't notice the difference anymore, and instead of viewing you as "my blind friend", "my wheelchair bound friend", or "my manic depressive friend", they just view you as "my friend".
Kugai:
It was a nice offer, a genuine mistake but Momo took it well.
Imagine if it was May!
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