Inquisitor Kryten: Well, Kryten? Justify yourself.Kryten: I'm not sure I can.Inquisitor Kryten: But surely your life is replete with good works? There can be few individuals who have lived a more selfless life.Kryten: But I am programmed to live unselfishly. And therefore, any good works I do come not out of fine motives, but as a result of a series of binary commands I am compelled to obey.Inquisitor Kryten: Well, then, how can any mechanical justify himself?Kryten: Perhaps only if he attempted to break his programming and conduct his life according to a set of values he arrived at independently.Inquisitor Kryten: Your argument invites deletion.Kryten: The rules are yours, not mine.Inquisitor Kryten: Do you wish to be erased?Kryten: I am programmed not to wish for anything. I serve.Inquisitor Kryten: In a human, this type of behaviour could be considered "stubborn".Kryten: But I am not human. And neither are you. And it is not our place to judge them. I wonder why you do.
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