Goonhub
09-15-2022, 09:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2022, 09:17 PM by Lord_earthfire. Edited 4 times in total.)
I think there is an inherently problem when someone plays borg that can create this.
We, as humans, task or get tasked to play a machine, not a living or conscience being, that are bound by programming and laws, but still have quirks due to having half functioning brains as processors. And i say half functioning because you slot technical dead, half rotten brains into borgs and they work.
This is hard for us as players, because we cannot move out of our sphere of consciousnessfull thinking and emotion. Borgs would process and output information completely different, and this is an alien concept for us. We can only try to mimic a way we think they would work. And we have tendencies to add too much personality to them.
And this leaves a very sour tastes for some, because if this role, that certainly would fit to borgs due to their very nature, would be applied to humans, this would be straight up slavery.
But beings without conscience and will cannot be slaves. Borgs are, by the way they exist, tools or automated workforce. A rule-less borg works on random thoughts or impressions without introspection or reevaluaion, what makes them dangerous.
You can play crew that humanize borgs and try to fight for their "rights", because they thenselves don't know it better. But i think as players we shouldn't jump on the same fallacy.
We, as humans, task or get tasked to play a machine, not a living or conscience being, that are bound by programming and laws, but still have quirks due to having half functioning brains as processors. And i say half functioning because you slot technical dead, half rotten brains into borgs and they work.
This is hard for us as players, because we cannot move out of our sphere of consciousnessfull thinking and emotion. Borgs would process and output information completely different, and this is an alien concept for us. We can only try to mimic a way we think they would work. And we have tendencies to add too much personality to them.
And this leaves a very sour tastes for some, because if this role, that certainly would fit to borgs due to their very nature, would be applied to humans, this would be straight up slavery.
But beings without conscience and will cannot be slaves. Borgs are, by the way they exist, tools or automated workforce. A rule-less borg works on random thoughts or impressions without introspection or reevaluaion, what makes them dangerous.
You can play crew that humanize borgs and try to fight for their "rights", because they thenselves don't know it better. But i think as players we shouldn't jump on the same fallacy.