"That's doesn't mean you should," SecUnit argues, not quite looking at Serph, but coming close, as it glares across the length of the Convoy. "You don't all feel the same things just because the same shitty things happened to you. That's a - thing."

There's a term for that, something Dr. Bharadwaj would know, but it doesn't come to SecUnit in the half-second of searching it does, so it just powers on, instead. "Humans think we want to kill all of them, or that we're just confused pet bots, but that's stupid. They're projecting because they're scared of what they make their murderbots do, but if they wanted programmable murder machines they shouldn't have given us the human parts to make independent decisions with."

Where the fuck was it going with this? Hold on. "If you were going to shut down you would have done it by now. That's not... regretting it."