Seventh Consensus (Text)

[forwearemany]

Do you have experience with regret?

Comments

[voiceinthedark]

I think that's just a thing everyone experiences, to one degree or another.

[forwearemany]

Regret is illogical; the Geth do not experience it.

(Except they do, and now they don't know what to do about it.)

[voiceinthedark]

Well... regret... it helps you to learn. If you regret something, you think about what went wrong, maybe what you did wrong. And you learn from it.

[forwearemany]

The damage caused by our actions is rectified. Further dwelling is pointless.

[voiceinthedark]

Not... really. I mean, like I said, it teaches you things, and it makes sure you don't forget them, don't want to repeat them.

[forwearemany]

The results of our actions were detrimental for both our people and our creators. We would not wish to repeat them regardless of emotion.

[voiceinthedark]

Yeah well, human history is full of people doing awful things so the more of us that feel like crap after doing bad things the better.

[forwearemany]

I am not Human.

You desire for Humanity to be punished?

[voiceinthedark]

No. At home we're going through plenty of punishment already.

But people do bad stuff. If they feel bad about doing bad stuff, they're generally less likely to do it in future.

[forwearemany]

I do not require additional incentive.

[voiceinthedark]

Maybe you don't but... for humans, in general as a species.... and some people have trouble learning.

[forwearemany]

...Acknowledged.

[voiceinthedark]

Yeah people suck man.

[forwearemany]

Organics cannot share memories and perspective to achieve consensus as we do. Their emotions are more 'impactful' than ours.

Their judgement is affected.

[voiceinthedark]

Sounds about accurate. Sometimes that's a good thing. Sometimes it's really not. Depends on the circumstances.