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[QUOTE=The tall man;4558904]So do the anti-Sentinels posters think that power dampening nanites or inhibitor collars are unacceptable too? Humans should just rely on the Avengers or other non mutant heroes for protection. Humanity are inherently at a great disadvantage against mutants in practically all areas, what are they to do; just lay down and accept the slow march to annihilation and extinction? Accept the rhetoric of mutant superiority and mutant dominance of the planet? Humanity will never accept that and if they did they wouldn't be humans, it's not human nature to give up and give in. Humanity may ultimately lose the war against mutants but they are not going to go into oblivion without a fight. And in a war for survival you use every weapon in your Arsenal, thats what mutants are doing especially with regards to omega mutants, humanity is doing it with Sentinels(Mother Mold and Nimrod)[/QUOTE]
These pro-Sentinel arguments make no sense. Humans are not going extinct because of 'evil' Mutants. They're going extinct because of evolutionary factors. Sentinels, nanites and inhibitor collars don't change that. Unless you use them to commit genocide, which is what has happened and will continue to happen..
Parents should want their children to exceed them, to be more than they are and to achieve more. Orchis is really about parents who don't want that and feel threatened by their offspring's success. It's good that Gregor didn't have kids because she would've been a horrible mother, in addition to being a horrible monster.
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[QUOTE=useridgoeshere;4559102]These pro-Sentinel arguments make no sense. Humans are not going extinct because of 'evil' Mutants. They're going extinct because of evolutionary factors. Sentinels, nanites and inhibitor collars don't change that. Unless you use them to commit genocide, which is what has happened and will continue to happen..
Parents should want their children to exceed them, to be more than they are and to achieve more. Orchis is really about parents who don't want that and feel threatened by their offspring's success. [B]It's good that Gregor didn't have kids because she would've been a horrible mother, in addition to being a horrible monster.[/B][/QUOTE]
Yes slay her pls.
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[QUOTE=The tall man;4558904]So do the anti-Sentinels posters think that power dampening nanites or inhibitor collars are unacceptable too? Humans should just rely on the Avengers or other non mutant heroes for protection. Humanity are inherently at a great disadvantage against mutants in practically all areas, what are they to do; just lay down and accept the slow march to annihilation and extinction? Accept the rhetoric of mutant superiority and mutant dominance of the planet? Humanity will never accept that and if they did they wouldn't be humans, it's not human nature to give up and give in. Humanity may ultimately lose the war against mutants but they are not going to go into oblivion without a fight. And in a war for survival you use every weapon in your Arsenal, thats what mutants are doing especially with regards to omega mutants, humanity is doing it with Sentinels(Mother Mold and Nimrod)[/QUOTE]
It's not a war. We already know that if a war broke out between sapiens and mutants, everyone would lose to the machines.
Right now, it's merely a guerilla, hidden skirmishes between both sides.
Though it's true, it's naive to think people would embrace their own extinction without reacting. Especially when they have the means to do something about it.
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Easy solution. Get Forge, Doug, and all other techno mutants together and have them create their own sentinel program. The criteria can be when a sentinel is activated with the intent to kill mutants the mutant sentinels activate and return the favor. Easy solution and pretty fair based on the tall man's criteria.
Also are we forgetting mutants are still humans and are actually born from humans. So the only way humans can win is to kill themselves basically. Ultimate catch 22.
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Mutants are probably the most valuable resource in the MU (on earth). If humans had any functioning brain cells, they would’ve stopped trying to kill them and tried integrating them to established society instead.
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ORCHIS willingly accepted Hydra agents. [B]HYDRA.[/B] They all deserved to be cleansed by solar fire.
[QUOTE=Arsenal;4559351]Mutants are probably the most valuable resource in the MU (on earth). If humans had any functioning brain cells, they would’ve stopped trying to kill them and tried integrating them to established society instead.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Criticalfan;4558987]Each individual human is going to die and give way to their descendants anyway eventually, and none of their anti-mutant actions are going to stop that.
It's only a war (more like a quick skirmish) if the humans can't learn to share with their own young.[/QUOTE]Racism aside, the only downside to having mutant children is the high possibility that their powers might be genuinely dangerous if not outright lethal. With proper genetic screening, even that can be mitigated. And yes, I know there's the 'superhumans will rise up and oppress the normals' fear but that's inherent with any human who has a stick while another human doesn't.
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Considering some people here have brought up the Sentinels' AI, that also factors into the argument in real life about technology being potentially biased against racial/ethnic minorities because most of the head honchos in charge of developing things like AI are largely [I]not[/I] racial/ethnic minorities themselves. It could be an interesting means to update the ongoing meta-narrative about marginalization, oppression, and persecution of "others" that has been key to the X-Men franchise for so long.
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This is interesting.
The arguments in the defense for Sentinels is pretty interesting. Though I don't see how you can justify that building a Sentinel for your protection is right. I will say It's great to hear other opinions really. I just never thought i'd see someone argue building Sentinels is justifiable.
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[QUOTE=Arsenal;4559351]Mutants are probably the most valuable resource in the MU (on earth). If humans had any functioning brain cells, they would’ve stopped trying to kill them and tried integrating them to established society instead.[/QUOTE]
Actually that would of been the smart thing to do. Integrating mutants into society at all levels could advance humanity as a whole in many areas. But when you have some mutants advocating for mutant superiority and dominance, for the replacement of humans and referring to themselves as gods; well that might cause some trepidation and allow for some negative feelings. Especially when there are some extremely powerful mutants fully capable of carrying out their intentions.
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The only innocent who died on the Orchis Station was Mother Mold.
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[QUOTE=Vegan Daddy;4559554]The only innocent who died on the Orchis Station was Mother Mold.[/QUOTE]
Mother Mold didn't ask to be created, and weren't her final words basically, "Mutants, humans --- f*** you both"? Because really, that is another great point raised, that the Sentinels not only go after mutants, but eventually turn on anything with DNA, including baseline humans and nonmutant superhumans, since as jwatson mentioned, mutants are born [I]from[/I] humans. There is nothing meaningfully distinguishing humans and mutants as different "races" --- race being a social construct used to justify discrimination by some against others based on surface-level differences, anyway --- aside from a strand of DNA that gives some people superpowers, so the Sentinels, being AI unbound by human emotion even if programmed according to human biases, [I]would[/I] eventually realize that.
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[QUOTE=The tall man;4559510]Actually that would of been the smart thing to do. Integrating mutants into society at all levels could advance humanity as a whole in many areas. But when you have some mutants advocating for mutant superiority and dominance, for the replacement of humans and referring to themselves as gods; well that might cause some trepidation and allow for some negative feelings. Especially when there are some extremely powerful mutants fully capable of carrying out their intentions.[/QUOTE]
The Mutants who advocate for Superiority and Dominance Can you give a body count of how many people they have killed??
[QUOTE=Huntsman Spider;4559586]Mother Mold didn't ask to be created, and weren't her final words basically, "Mutants, humans --- f*** you both"? Because really, that is another great point raised, that the Sentinels not only go after mutants, but eventually turn on anything with DNA, including baseline humans and nonmutant superhumans, since as jwatson mentioned, mutants are born [I]from[/I] humans. There is nothing meaningfully distinguishing humans and mutants as different "races" --- race being a social construct used to justify discrimination by some against others based on surface-level differences, anyway --- aside from a strand of DNA that gives some people superpowers, so the Sentinels, being AI unbound by human emotion even if programmed according to human biases, [I]would[/I] eventually realize that.[/QUOTE]
Exactly, that's the whole point.
Every Sentinel that was programmed to kill mutants eventually turned on humans anyway, because they couldn't distinguished the difference. Mutants ARE human they come from Humans anyway lol.
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[QUOTE=stormphoenix;4559597]The Mutants who advocate for Superiority and Dominance Can you give a body count of how many people they have killed??
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Cassandra Nova got about 16 mill or so.
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[QUOTE=hawkeyefan;4559742]Cassandra Nova got about 16 mill or so.[/QUOTE]
She isn’t a mutant lol. Her whole deal is constantly trying to fork over mutants because she thinks they’re all abominations.
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[QUOTE=The tall [B]But when you have some mutants advocating for mutant superiority and dominance, for the replacement of humans and referring to themselves as gods; well that might cause some trepidation and allow for some negative feelings. Especially when there are some extremely powerful mutants fully capable of carrying out their intentions[/B].[/QUOTE]
Some Humans do that lol...and the world turns
[QUOTE=hawkeyefan;4559742]Cassandra Nova got about 16 mill or so.[/QUOTE]
She's not a Mutant
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She used a Weapon designed by humans solely as a means to kill mutants