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[[File:cit kyouran kazoku nikki - catgirl vs mandrake - will it blend.jpg|link=Kyouran Kazoku Nikki|frame|Proposed alternate measure: [[Will It Blend|Will it]] [http://www.willitblend.com/ blend]?]] |
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{{quote|''"Boy, [[Just a Machine|if those employees weren't robots]], I would have looked like some kind of serial killer or something, eh?"'' |
{{quote|''"Boy, [[Just a Machine|if those employees weren't robots]], I would have looked like some kind of serial killer or something, eh?"'' |
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|'''Dr. McNinja''', ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''}} |
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There is an [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality|invisible value]] placed on the existence of non-human characters in fiction, compared to the value of the life of a human. Killing/destroying one may or may not be the same thing as [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|killing a human]]. The difference between [[Not Even Human]] on one end of the scale and [[Not Quite Human]] on the other can be a very fine one, and where a series chooses to draw that line can vary as wildly as the writers' imaginations. |
There is an [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality|invisible value]] placed on the existence of non-human characters in fiction, compared to the value of the life of a human. Killing/destroying one may or may not be the same thing as [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|killing a human]]. The difference between [[Not Even Human]] on one end of the scale and [[Not Quite Human]] on the other can be a very fine one, and where a series chooses to draw that line can vary as wildly as the writers' imaginations. |