Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25045079-20140829212910/@comment-24757748-20140831001401

Penny has clearly shown that she does not follow the Three Laws.

First off, assuming that Faunus are considered human beings, she's already broken the First Law.

Second, she continually disobeys her father, breaking the Second Law.

However, one of the more interesting parts of the Asimov stories is that as time went on, robots became more and more intelligent. One robot in particular invented the Zeroth Law, which reads as follows:

0. A robot cannot harm humanity or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

This Law supercedes all the others and brings the concept of the "greater good" into the equation. While the stories have robots with the goal of leading and protecting humanity, and therefore aren't able to practically apply the Zeroth Law, Penny has a far more simple goal that coincides with the Zeroth Law.

Her reason for entering the tournament is to see how strong she is, and therefore learn more ways to fight. She's trying learn and evolve so that she's able to win against the Creatures of Grimm, which requires strategic and tactical knowledge. Therefore, she can and will break any or all of the Three Laws to ultimately defend humanity.