“I’m confused Roy, did you suddenly wake up this morning somehow existing in what you believe to be some century of antiquity?

“No,” Roy replied, “I don’t believe so.”

“Well, then that’s quite peculiar, then,” the robot replied, “because if going off of people’s perceptions of what is ‘Purely Equal’ is how ‘Ultimate Fairness’ is to be determined and disseminated, I believe the current cultural paradigm would be quite different than it is actually realized.”

The robot set the bowl down on the island and began a slow advance toward Roy in shallow lunging movements. Roy hesitated a moment before assessing the robot might be coming after him. Once the thought struck him he began his own dawdled retreat around the islan...

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