"This is not a tickler or neuronic whip It is a blaster, and I am trained in its use The first person I shoot will die, instantly So will the next, and the next after that"
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"You will not overwhelm me or disarm me or beat me to death Those who follow after you may, but at the sacrifice of your life Your life will end, here and now, they will bury you in the ground and record your name on a list of regrettable casualties"
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"Is that worth it to you? Is that how you wish to be remembered, as your final accomplishment before your death? If so I recommend you try your advance now, before your fellows lose their nerve to follow behind, and you die for nothing"
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And the piece de resistance is Baley getting even more freaked out afterwards, saying Daneel must be malfunctioning and needs to be shut down "A robot CAN'T DO THAT"
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"The First Law of Robotics, right? He can't even *allow* a human life to come to harm and he was threatening to fire into the crowd! His finger on the trigger!" "The choice was clear. The riot would have risked many lives. The threat was necessary to protect human life"
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"You can't make that calculation! You're not supposed to even be able to risk human life! That makes you a danger to every human around you!" "There was no risk. You misunderstand. Here" *hands over gun *
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And Elijah examines the gun and tries to pop the mag out and he can't There is no mag, there's no mechanism, the whole thing is solid metal, it's a prop And it dawns on him "A bluff...?"
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"For obvious reasons, it was deemed illogical to issue me a working sidearm. As I said, the analysis was simple. The threat was sufficient to disperse the crowd and save lives. Had they, as you say, called my bluff, only a robot would have been destroyed."
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"The calculation was simple. Under the Three Laws, no other course of action was possible"
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And Elijah is left speechless As were literally all of the readers who preferred dudes
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(I do see this scene as, like, emblematic of what Spock's whole deal is in Star Trek and as the template for this kind of masculine hero, the ability to just shut off selfish emotion to do what needs RI be done "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one")
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