yeah, okay, i know what you’re thinking, and i’ve heard all the arguments against using mechs before.

• it’s inhumane to put child-pilots (whom i really prefer to call premature soldiers) into giant bodies that can feel pain that gets not exactly redirected but rather copied into the much smaller bodies of the child-pilots


• they’re just kids! (dude, just typing this one makes me angry.)


• approximately $3 million are just blown to the wind every time one of the child-pilots wants to do a cool leg sweep and knocks over a building, which is like actually really common


• evacuating all the citizens of tokyo-3 all the time is inconvenient


• the giant bodies are really expensive on our tax dollars and pedants like to correct people who call them “robots” by clarifying that they’re actually made of mostly organic material, which is lowering the birthrate


• children are forgetful, which isn’t really a problem in isolation, however,


• a lot of people die when the child-pilots forget to look where they’re walking


• it’s hard for people to evacuate in such a way that prevents them from having the risk of being stepped on by a building, or large foot, or other implement of destruction of human bodies by way of overwhelming bigness, you’re saying the so-called “evacuation” is a problem, because we keep spending all our money on mechs instead of “good public transit”

honestly, i have to say that i don’t really understand any of these arguments, or the people who make them, but i’m going to attempt to reply anyway.

let’s do this in order.

• it’s inhumane to put child-pilots (whom i really prefer to call premature soldiers) into giant bodies that can feel pain that gets not exactly redirected but rather copied into the much smaller bodies of the child-pilots

you have to be joking me with this one. kids are widely known to be one of, if not the most impressionable classes of people. henceforth, it’s really good for them to be taught some good-ass lessons like how to take care of themselves from a young age. being put in a huge robot? i mean, is anything more badass than that? sure, it hurts, but what important thing doesn’t? it’s kind of like if the military was even more good for you.

• they’re just kids!

yeah, but they’re gonna be adults later! we gotta set ‘em up. i think everyone’s pretty much on the same page with this one.

• approximately $3 million are just blown to the wind every time one of the child-pilots wants to do a cool leg sweep and knocks over a building, which is like actually really common

i don’t understand this one because it actually doesn’t happen that often.

• evacuating all the citizens of tokyo-3 all the time is inconvenient

dude, most of the buildings go underground pretty much as soon as anything bad starts happening. if you stay inside i can’t really even imagine anything befalling you. i promise you’re freaking out over nothing. your misgivings are showing.

• the giant bodies are really expensive on our tax dollars and pedants like to correct people who call them “robots” by clarifying that they’re actually made of mostly organic material, which is lowering the birthrate

i’ll address the second half of this so-called “complaint” first by stating the fact that incels are an important and healthy part of any society. they correct us on our grammar and they make us feel better about ourselves because at least we’re not like them. and if you’re an incel and you’re reading this, my DMs are open. to address the first half, why the hell would we have tax dollars if we’re not going to spend them?

• children are forgetful, which isn’t really a problem in isolation, however,


• a lot of people die when the child-pilots forget to look where they’re walking

have you ever been walking on the sidewalk (i know you have. it’s called rhetoric) and you see a kid who’s maybe 2 years old walking away from its mom kinda stumbling around, and you have to alter your gait a bit to make sure you don’t trip over the little friend? it’s kind of like that except you’re the little friend, and if you mess up, you die. i don’t see how this is a big deal when many other things are like this.

• it’s hard for people to evacuate in such a way that prevents them from having the risk of being stepped on by a building, or large foot, or other implement of destruction of human bodies by way of overwhelming bigness, you’re saying the so-called “evacuation” is a problem, because we keep spending all our money on mechs instead of “good public transit”

you can tell people are running out of good arguments when they start repeating themselves even though i’ve virtually destroyed all of their attempts at logic thusfar. as far as i’m concerned, public transit is a luxury accommodation. buy a goddamn car! stop spending all your damn money on bus and train tickets! let’s not even get started on how coffee isn’t a necessity, either.

kids are doing what they’re meant to do and our world is getting protected, very efficiently i might add. got a problem? go fucking vote or something. God knows we’ll probably get a liberal in office again soon with the way you people keep flaming my comment section.



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