Chapter 166: The Great Rabbit Incident (2)
The following individuals fell victim to the sudden appearance of the rabbit androids: useless humans who couldn’t do anything right and only produced waste, societal dropouts who had been leeching off their parents for over a decade, and human trash who drank, gambled, and routinely abused their families.
Of course, villains were no exception to these corrections, but far more ‘ordinary people’ were being forcibly corrected. And in some ways, it was only natural. After all, there were far more minor offenders than those who committed crimes severe enough to be labeled as villains.
Those who underwent correction behaved as if they had become entirely different people overnight. The useless human who used to waste away in their room, fondling themselves in their pants, started studying, exercising, and dating. The human trash who resorted to violence daily offered heartfelt apologies and began working.
There was a clear reason why neither the heroes nor the government attempted to intervene. From the government’s perspective, which saw individuals as mere resource collectors like SCVs, it was far better to turn idle scrap metal into the gears of society. Even the heroes praised the situation rather than criticizing it, calling it an improvement in quality of life.
“Insane...”
But from my perspective as someone from Earth?
This was nothing short of grotesque desecration of human dignity.
It was an act of violating inalienable rights that machines had no business tampering with.
What exactly made someone who wrote nonsense online worse than a cog in society’s machine? What justified deeming a life spent chasing quick wins through drinking and gambling inferior to one lived diligently?
Lincoln was born into a poor household and worked menial labor but went on to become the President of the United States. Liu Bei started out weaving mats in a marketplace yet rose to become a king. Tyson was a thug who picked fights as a child but became the world’s most famous boxer. Robert Downey Jr. abused drugs from a young age yet eventually achieved massive success as an actor.
No one could predefine success or failure.
And there was no universe where a mere machine had the right to decide such things or meddle with the human brain.