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WCDT Strips 3176 to 3180 (14 - 18 March 2016)

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pwhodges:

--- Quote from: St.Clair on 15 Mar 2016, 09:07 ---People are complicated.  This can be a bother at times, even (especially?) when the person is us... but attempts to change that essential truth have given us some of the great horrors of society and/or the medical and psychiatric profession, and will probably continue to do so.
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Modifying a running AI program in the QCverse would probably be considered equivalent to Eugenics, with all the moral issues which that raises.

Nepiophage:

--- Quote from: hedgie on 14 Mar 2016, 21:03 ---Have you not heard of the "(S)he needed killin'" defense?

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She had it coming
She had it coming
She only had herself to blame
If you'da been there
If you'da seen it
I betcha you woulda
Done the same.

toffee-skye:
i'm late to the party, but still

*bangs pots and pans together*
FUCKIN WRECK EM, BUBBLES

honestly i recognise where CW is coming from. using parts for non-business purposes, no matter how spare, is a waste of resources. however, given the business she(?) runs is illegal anyway, any complaint she makes of legality is moot.

Morituri:
There's a thing that sometimes happens with illegal businesses....  The manager is frequently just the one who's set up to take the fall in a bust, while most of the money goes to the loan-shark "backers" who set her up in business, or people who "insure" things that it would be "a shame if something happened to." Extortion is such an ugly word...

Thing is, being an AI, Corpse Witch could be "set up" in a much more literal sense than that. 

From her point of view;  Imagine that you are a young rising star in the robot criminal underworld, ready to take command of your first completely illegal enterprise, and you go to meet your loan shark, and it turns out that it's you.  And over the course of the next ten minutes, you discover that it's several years later than you thought it was, that you're a copy made a couple years ago by the very same loan shark behind the desk, that you have no legal existence whatsoever, that your new name is Corpse Witch, and that future-you is going to extort and blackmail you all to hell and back in your new business and there's not crap you can do about it.  And, being (an earlier version of) her, you know she's ruthless enough to do it.  For the original it's win/win; if CW gets busted and hauled off to Robot Jail, that's pretty much equivalent to faking her own death and getting the cops off her case once and for all. 

Kugai:
Plot twist

It's actually Bubbles who owns the Fight Club and CW is just someone she placed in as a 'Front' (albeit secretly).

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