Thanks for helping me understand this a little more. I'm sure that the theme was choice now.
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Originally posted by pkgrl
Most people will stay inside the matrix. It's home. It's comfortable and safe and we humans like things to be easy more often than not. In Reloaded, the Architect gave the number as "nearly 99% of all humans accepted the program as long as they" had a choice, even if the choice was nearly unconscious. You saw the "fields" of fetuses. There are still billions of humans on Earth, and almost all of them were or will be plugged into the matrix. Barely more than 1% of them will be dissatisfied enough to be "freed" to live in Zion. There has to be cooperation (as the Oracle said in Reloaded) in order for humans AND machines to survive on Earth. As long as the people believe that they are living their own happy little lives, and believe that they're free, who are we (or the Zionites) to argue?
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This is exactly what I thought too.
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Originally posted by pkgrl
These machines aren't like the machines we know. They were originally created by humans to be like humans. The Architect program isn't very typical of the programs created by these machines, either. (Look at Rama, the Oracle, Seraph, even the Merovingian.) He doesn't understand choice because it's not part of his prigramming, whereas programs like the Oracle have to understand choice. In order to understand humans, a program would have to understand choice. Because these other programs not only understand choice, but are capable of making their own choices, one has to conclude that they've learned a lot about humans in general. They understand human connections and emotions, and I'm certain that they also understand symbolism (or they wouldn't use it themselves. |
Most humans, given the choice, will stay inside the Matrix, but now they have the choice. Given the fact that they do have a choice, the free humans cannot argue that there is any moral reasons to free them.