Post by Ayakura Alisa on Apr 7, 2014 5:25:24 GMT -5
I fidgeted with my hands as if a little restless, upon Pyxis jokingly mentioned 'underestimating me.' Well, to be fair, not very many people knew my intense training regime back when I was a kid. My punishment would usually be physical discipline, which actually helped improve my body's constitution somewhat if I had to look back on it in hindsight, even if it did hurt like hell. Soon, the robot responded to my comment about being human-like. More than just being part of the community, but also because being more human-like facilitated the Persona awakening process. I could tell, but her expression seemed to turn a little grim when she mentioned wanting to turn the ability to feel pain off.
"I, at first, wanted to eliminate the feeling of pain as well, when I was younger," I said. "But I was told that being able to feel pain was one of the most important parts of being human. Well, my father told me that. He was far more pacifist than my mother, dealing mostly with computers and coding. He taught me most of what I know about hacking," I continued. "My father said to me that if we could not feel pain, we could not feel what it was like to be hurt. We could not properly grow if we could never feel pain. On top of that, being unable to feel pain would mean that we would overestimate our bodies' ability to be battered and injured. It's a part of being human. It's like burning your hand to the extent of becoming unusable because you could not feel the 'sensation of being burnt.' It's like breaking your bones by hard impact because you could not feel the 'sensation of being crushed or hitting bone against a hard surface.'"
"I, at first, wanted to eliminate the feeling of pain as well, when I was younger," I said. "But I was told that being able to feel pain was one of the most important parts of being human. Well, my father told me that. He was far more pacifist than my mother, dealing mostly with computers and coding. He taught me most of what I know about hacking," I continued. "My father said to me that if we could not feel pain, we could not feel what it was like to be hurt. We could not properly grow if we could never feel pain. On top of that, being unable to feel pain would mean that we would overestimate our bodies' ability to be battered and injured. It's a part of being human. It's like burning your hand to the extent of becoming unusable because you could not feel the 'sensation of being burnt.' It's like breaking your bones by hard impact because you could not feel the 'sensation of being crushed or hitting bone against a hard surface.'"