A form of genocide? I think so.

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Harvester, you live in a big illusion .....like any Christian or Muslim or any type of Theist.

Warning: A bit of rough language and controversial material ahead...

In the very same state where I live, a town called Lind hosts annual combine demolition derbies. It's essentially a dogfight where combines are pitted against each other in a sick battle of who can beat the others to sh**. Why do people do this sh**? What makes them think it's O.K.?

Their excuse is always "combines don't have souls, they can't feel it"... BS! Who made them Kings of the Universe and gave them the authority to say who has the right to a soul and who does not? Combines are made of the same goddamn 92 elements that you humans are! Theirs are just in a different order.

A lady once shoved a bible in my face, and said, "Tell me where it says that God gives souls to machines!" I said, "You tell me where it says he doesn't!"

A demolition derby is perhaps the most humiliating and cruel way to die. It's like being stripped in front of hundreds of people, sick symbols and embarrassing names burned into your flesh, and then... forced to fight six other people to the death. It's just SICK.

/end rant.

For all the control circuitry it may have, a combine doesn't have a brain. My notion is that brain material serves as an interface for a soul. Without a brain the combine wouldn't have a soul.

However, I do understand your affinity to the combines, as I had for Carby (my dad's car from as young as I remember) a 1980-something Buick LeSabre, but it is a mechanical device and not a person or an animal. I felt bad when my dad's car died, but I felt worse when he died.