I totally thought that BSG did a good job (or is this just me?? I tend to identify with villains...) of showing that the cylons were people-equivalents. They are living, thinking beings. You can't genocide them. Just because they did it doesn't make it okay to do it back.
... I'm not sure how much I think you should get rid of an entire species (or other category of being), period, whether it's sentient or not.
The fact that they're "machines" holds no water with me. If things are self-aware and can make their own decisions, then they meet my criteria for intelligent life.
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Man.
I totally thought that BSG did a good job (or is this just me?? I tend to identify with villains...) of showing that the cylons were people-equivalents. They are living, thinking beings. You can't genocide them. Just because they did it doesn't make it okay to do it back.
... I'm not sure how much I think you should get rid of an entire species (or other category of being), period, whether it's sentient or not.
The fact that they're "machines" holds no water with me. If things are self-aware and can make their own decisions, then they meet my criteria for intelligent life.