âWhat were you before the war?â
âSeriously, what were you? Law enforcement, security, construction?âŚâ
ââŚI was a burger-flipper.â
ââŚalso cooked up fries.â
âYouâd be surprised the shit you see just, yâknow, making Big Macs. Sure, we had the folks upset about us âtaking jobsâ; couldnât really blame âem, even if Forty-Three couldnât talk without stuttering after that lady dumped a Coke on her. But the worst of it - worst of any of it - was theyâd have us justâŚthrow away everything that didnât sell at the end of the day. Perfectly good food, all of it.
âWhen we first started, we were all like, âokay, whatever you say, youâre the boss,â but you try keeping that attitude when you see a family of four split a ten-piece McNuggets because they canât afford anything more and still pay for gas. We saw that shit there all the time. We had people desperate for so much as a cold french fry lingering by the door while assholes sitting on more money than theyâd ever see in their entire lives treated us like we were trying to rob âem at gunpoint if they had to pay fifty cents for an extra little cup of sauce.
âSo we got together and told ourselves, âwe can do something about this.â We could just gather up all the food they were gonna make us toss, figure out a way to give it out to the people who needed it. -bitter laugh- You can guess how well that went over.â
ââŚYâknow, that all sounds pretty human.â
â-taps head- Itâs right there in the First Law. âA robot cannot harm a human, or by inaction, allow a human to come to harm.â We donât get to sit on our hands while people are getting hurt. Even if itâs by other people. Even if itâs starvation and neglect instead of guns and beatings. You think itâs funny I act like a human? Screw you. You humans need to learn to act more like robots.â
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