Superboy looked conflicted and very tired, but that gave way to a thoughtful expression. Stepping forward, slowly, and then determinedly, he went to the console. Leaning heavily on it with his one hand, he looked at the screen, at the programming there.
"What if we woke them up without the programming? Delete it. No programming telling them to be slaves, no programming telling them to join the CLF or kill people. Just the basics they need to be people, like walking and dressing themselves and and all that."
He turned and looked at the others, his gaze piercing.
"I had just the basics. The control programming in me didn't kick in until later and then I overthrew it, but in the beginning, it was just the basics, and I was a person. I made my own choices, my own mistakes. That way they won't get wiped out in their sleep, and that way no one's controlling them either--and the government can't program in more control stuff to compensate for our memories later. Forget an army, forget violence, that's enough to do a civil disobedience thing. That's a Million Clone March right there. And the thing is, instead of forcing them, Moses, you can just ask them to do it. They're going to wake up eventually anyway--why don't we do it now, and just ask them to help and to not hurt anyone doing it?"
They were already made, already living beings. So why not just wake them up early and see if they wanted to change their world? See if they were willing to do it without violence--the more of them there were, the better their chances at doing it without as much violence.
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"What if we woke them up without the programming? Delete it. No programming telling them to be slaves, no programming telling them to join the CLF or kill people. Just the basics they need to be people, like walking and dressing themselves and and all that."
He turned and looked at the others, his gaze piercing.
"I had just the basics. The control programming in me didn't kick in until later and then I overthrew it, but in the beginning, it was just the basics, and I was a person. I made my own choices, my own mistakes. That way they won't get wiped out in their sleep, and that way no one's controlling them either--and the government can't program in more control stuff to compensate for our memories later. Forget an army, forget violence, that's enough to do a civil disobedience thing. That's a Million Clone March right there. And the thing is, instead of forcing them, Moses, you can just ask them to do it. They're going to wake up eventually anyway--why don't we do it now, and just ask them to help and to not hurt anyone doing it?"
They were already made, already living beings. So why not just wake them up early and see if they wanted to change their world? See if they were willing to do it without violence--the more of them there were, the better their chances at doing it without as much violence.