Talk:Penny Polendina/@comment-27144409-20191216233738/@comment-24018437-20200104182029

Pretty sure that EDI’s death (for those that picked the Destroy ending) isn’t gonna be solved like that. EDI had evolved and become just as alive as any human. Even if, somehow, you’d be able to save her on a stick, it wouldn’t be EDI. It would just be a cheap knock-off. Not the person EDI had become, the loyal friend who fought by your side. Or Legion, who has gained true intelligence at the end of his life and had become a full-fledged individual who was willing to sacrifice itself for the rest of his people. Legion and EDI were not soulless machines that can just be transferred if they died, as you said. If/when they died, they truly died. Legion’s potentiol final words can even be him asking if he had a soul and most players and even a lot of characters in the game admit they do think he is one. In an ironic twist, you’re the one being disrespectfull to AI’s now.

I have a lot of respect for Penny. But I aknowledge she isn’t human and that there are things she can learn. Ironwood and Jacques talk about her like she is a tool. Penny isn’t that, and she needs to realize that. She is, as Ruby said, a person. But she’s not human. She is alive, but not in the same way a human is. I don’t think that makes her less alive then any of the human or faunus characters though. As Engineer Adams in ME3 said, organics and synthetics are both machines. One is made out of metal and wires, the other is made out of flesh and skin.

Do I think Penny is alive? Yes. Do I think she’s human? No. Do I think that makes her less alive then any organic being? Again, no. She is different from humans and faunus alike, but certainly not inferior.

I would kindly ask you not to put words into my mouth or twist them. Also, you take this really, really personal.