re: #62 GunstarGreen

A machine will never betray me.
A machine will never hurt me for its own gain.
A machine will never judge me on some arbitrary criteria to which I am not privy.
A machine will never lose its mind and go crazy on me.
A machine will never ask me to violate my ethics, and use my emotions as a weapon to convince me.

It’s taken me a pretty long time to get out of this kind of mindset. But, from the experience of someone who’s been there, these are the sorts of reasons that someone might use to prefer ‘cold and lonely’ machines over the company of other humans. Humans are messy and unpredictable, like all living things, and not everyone wants to deal with that.

I prefer “messy and unpredictable”—it makes life worth living, in my humble estimation. I’ve learned an awful lot from “messy and unpredictable” people, and it’s been good and bad. : )

And that’s coming from someone who hates “drama queening”—I’ve seen enough of that kind of irrational behavior for a dozen lifetimes. It’s another manipulative technique, and dishonest, IMHO.