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Whats the significance of this episode?

• actionfromafar 4y ago
  Cruel and unusual punishment, public shaming, steeling oneself against the suffering of another, mocking of the obsolete, the (feigned) pretense that you yourself could not be the one locked up next time, etc etc.
  • FridayoLeary 4y ago
    One must take that in context. Despite the engines possesing powers of reasoning and critical thinking, it's important to recognise that those aren't as advanced as a human. It is likely that they also don't feel emotions like shame as strongly. The engines appear to have the intellectual and emotional capacity of an 8 year old human.
    • aidenn0 4y ago
      8 year old humans can feel shame incredibly strongly.
  • Moissanite 4y ago
    Listen, if I had to pull the Flying Kipper up a hill with inferior non-Welsh coal, I'd be sad too.
  • actionfromafar 4y ago
    Oh, I forgot. In the US, the pretense wouldn't be, feigned or otherwise. It'd be a deep conviction that Bad Stuff happens to Bad People. In the UK, everyone knows deep down the Fat Controller could come for them too and you couldn't do anything about it.