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Monopoman posted...

I think you need to understand that no matter how they are treated they would be not seen as human until they started thinking on their own+feeling and even then some would still see them as just a machine. It's like if I start abusing my vacuum cleaner no one would say shit if I did that I could literally treat it like dirt and do whatever I want to it. The cops won't be showing up to my door demanding justice for what i did to my vacuum cleaner.

I think the entire point of the game is trying to determine what is considered a person, especially with the things that Connor has to deal with. Connor is put in some of the most notable moments, where he has to establish if an android is a human or not based on his own choices.

Except the game's already poisoned the well right from the get-go as to if they are human or not and then further muddled it with scenes like the back of the bus bit. The androids are blatantly sentient from the get-go and are also suffering a near-identical discrimination to what black people suffered; the exact same one that was going on with Rosa Parks which kicked off the major civil rights reform. There's really no other way to interpret it as anything other than an allegory for racism that has a veil so thin that you can see the throbbing erection of 'fight racism! And if you disagree with us you're racist' underneath.

Simply put, the game doesn't 'ask the question'. It has made up its mind as to what the answer is already and is forcing you to come to that answer. It's especially telling when games that haven't even had either topic ('the measure of a man' or 'racism') as it's focus handled it better than DBH. It's a bad game with preachy morals and a foregone conclusion acting far smarter than it actually is for repeating a lesson most of us learned when we were children.

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