[It's like trying to reason with a brick wall. A Renaissance Era brick wall. Jesus Christ.]
They lack discipline because they've never had to deal with this sort of situation, Mr. Estinien. A good soldier recognizes the strengths and weaknesses of his whole team. But we're still a team. And punishment doesn't have to mean beating them down. Have you ever heard of the carrot and the stick? I know them. Rhys and Angel don't respond to the stick when you want them to do something or not do something. They respond to incentives, not retribution. You're not going to teach them any sort of lesson. They're just going to get more entrenched, draw more people into the conflict.
That's the last thing we need.
They disrespect you because they feel you've disrespected them and something they hold as a fundamental and core principle in their world: That robots are people with feelings and should be treated that way. You might disagree with that, but it's something that's true where they're from. Dismissing it out of hand is what's raise the ire on their side and probably why they antagonized you in the first place.
If someone were to come here and tell you that your treating a particular race from your own world as people, rather than as mindless objects was wrong, how would that make you feel? Keep in mind that from their perspective, whatever race it is in question is treated like mindless objects in their world and believed to be nothing more than that.
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They lack discipline because they've never had to deal with this sort of situation, Mr. Estinien. A good soldier recognizes the strengths and weaknesses of his whole team. But we're still a team. And punishment doesn't have to mean beating them down. Have you ever heard of the carrot and the stick? I know them. Rhys and Angel don't respond to the stick when you want them to do something or not do something. They respond to incentives, not retribution. You're not going to teach them any sort of lesson. They're just going to get more entrenched, draw more people into the conflict.
That's the last thing we need.
They disrespect you because they feel you've disrespected them and something they hold as a fundamental and core principle in their world: That robots are people with feelings and should be treated that way. You might disagree with that, but it's something that's true where they're from. Dismissing it out of hand is what's raise the ire on their side and probably why they antagonized you in the first place.
If someone were to come here and tell you that your treating a particular race from your own world as people, rather than as mindless objects was wrong, how would that make you feel? Keep in mind that from their perspective, whatever race it is in question is treated like mindless objects in their world and believed to be nothing more than that.