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[no3laws.livejournal.com]

Being rather immobilized at the moment, I've taken to watching this comm. And I find I have something to get off my chest.

Hatred gets you nowhere.

A person is angry, and they hate someone else for it. So they hurt that person. The person who was hurt had family, people who cared about him. Everyone does, even if they don't deserve it. This person's family members, someone they love has been hurt, and that hurts them, too.

So they hate that first person.

They'll try to hurt that person. Maybe they can't get to the person they hate, so it's transferred to someone else. Someone who reminds them of that person. Their family, maybe, or someone who looks like them, or acts like them.

The new person is hurt. And they have family, people who care about them.

It never ends.

Hatred has made me do things I regret. I had to learn that lesson the hard way.

Please, I don't want anyone else to.

Comments

[voice]

[yippiekiyay.livejournal.com]

That's... weird. Any idea why?

[private][voice]

[no3laws.livejournal.com]

Back home, ten years ago, the United States of Thracia invaded the country of Persia, in search of robots of mass destruction. Other countries helped in their efforts. I felt it was my duty to enlist.

The way some of those cities looked, and the way parts of this City look, since Godzilla... I think my sensors get confused, somehow.

[private][voice]

[yippiekiyay.livejournal.com]

Sounds like shellshock. Didn't think robots would have to worry about that.

So you're a no-go in the repair zones. Everything still tip-top if we send you to the outskirts, and the restored areas?

[private][voice]

[no3laws.livejournal.com]

Neither would most people.

Yes, I'm fine there.

[private][voice]

[yippiekiyay.livejournal.com]

Good to know.

What year is it, where you're from, anyway?

[private][voice]

[no3laws.livejournal.com]

[year he's from, canon never says, but Astroboy starts in 2001, I think, and Pluto was written in 2003, so something vaguely future-y]

[private][voice]

[yippiekiyay.livejournal.com]

[should've known better than to ask about comic book time]

Huh. Can I ask what kinds of abilities you have? Just so I know your specialties. I mean, does a big magnet screw you up or anything?

[private][voice]

[no3laws.livejournal.com]

No. I'm made of a special alloy. Very strong, not affected by magnets.

Also, my left hand can turn into a gun that shoots a knockout gas. My right arm becomes a very powerful sort of anti-tank gun. I'm also programmed to be unable to kill humans.

[private][voice]

[yippiekiyay.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah? Out of curiosity, how does the fact that death isn't permanent here affect that programming?

[private][voice]

[no3laws.livejournal.com]

Killing is killing, whether or not they come back.