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[subroutined]

[ Ash has been having a bit of an identity crisis lately. Between K-2SO telling him he was making decisions independent of his programming, and discussing with Kylo how he isn't sure whether to consider his experiences as separate from those of the real, human Ash Starmer... He could do with a bit of advice.

That said, he's wary. He doesn't want to ask for advice as himself. So he creates a proxy identity using a dummy IP address and posts the following anonymous message. ]

Let's say you were made for a purpose: to be a certain way or to do a certain thing. If you started doing other things, or making decisions that led you in a different direction than the one you're meant to follow, is that good or bad? Does it mean you've failed in your purpose? Or have you grown as a person?

Is individuality acceptable when it's not what you were meant for?

Comments

[d33tached]

[This is a strange position for D33 to have found himself in. After all, isn't he rather in the same boat? He, too, has a purpose for which he was designed. After being brought here, he, too, had lost all sense of that purpose. His only purpose now is to survive. But, speaking with Ash, he somehow feels that that isn't the answer that he'll be looking for - maybe it isn't the right answer at all.]

Do you suppose that one needs a purpose to begin with?

That is to say, if you've been left without a purpose to carry out, do you suppose that you must replace it with another in order to continue on? Or can you simply live the way that you are living within this world and allow things to happen as they will?

[subroutined]

I don't know if that's the case for most other people. But for me, I generally need a purpose, or some instruction on how to behave.

[ Otherwise he has no way of choosing his responses to stimuli. ]

[d33tached]

[He can understand the sentiment (though, not as well as he thinks).]

I suppose you might, in that case, seek out a purpose with which to replace the one you've lost.

[He has. Even if he won't admit it out loud.]

[subroutined]

[ Has he truly lost his original purpose? In a way, there isn't much point to being Ash Starmer here, where no one knew the real Ash Starmer.

Not that he ever made a very good Ash Starmer. ]

Alright. I'll try that.

[d33tached]

The best of luck to you.

[A surprisingly kind sentiment coming from D33, but, what can he say? He understands.]

[subroutined]

Thank you.