And in this world, the Cylons seem more like the "colonizers", the people who gave smallpox covered blankets to the natives, or slaughtered them without mercy
If I may play devil's advocate, we don't know exactly how the cylons were treated before/during their attainment of sentience. What was their intended role? War weapons? If they were *gaining* sentience, and their first memories are of being forced by HUMANS to kill each other, and of being killed, over and over and over again, then we might consider their position very similar to oppressed peoples during the colonial era. The difference is, it was the cylons who had the superior weapon technology.
This doesn't make their genocide right. It *does* call into question the cylons' motivations. Is the genocide, and continued persecution of the remaining human fleet a reaction to their first (collective?)memory of humans as threats to themselves?
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Date: 2005-02-27 08:36 am (UTC)If I may play devil's advocate, we don't know exactly how the cylons were treated before/during their attainment of sentience. What was their intended role? War weapons? If they were *gaining* sentience, and their first memories are of being forced by HUMANS to kill each other, and of being killed, over and over and over again, then we might consider their position very similar to oppressed peoples during the colonial era. The difference is, it was the cylons who had the superior weapon technology.
This doesn't make their genocide right. It *does* call into question the cylons' motivations. Is the genocide, and continued persecution of the remaining human fleet a reaction to their first (collective?)memory of humans as threats to themselves?