Question in regards to Loyalty...

[Barloke]

I had similar misgivings (and still do) as well concerning the whole code bomb thing. For me it was at best a hypocitical act. Lets say for the sake of argument you had a million blue pills (I could see more than that number in Mega City but bear with me). Throw in another million in Machine programs and exiles (by Machines I mean those programs in Machine City).

If the plan Morpheus had would have worked he could have easily destroyed 800,000 human lives if the reality of the Matrix would have collapsed around them (remember, Morpheus did say something to the effect that awakening wasn't for everybody, that the mind has trouble letting go.

Now I know this is the part where back in the day I used to here from the Zion camp that the Mechs and Exiles didn't count because they're not human and since Zion was a t war anyway with them they would happily like to see them all dead. I guess that includes The Oracle, Seraph and Sati as well because despite their help and good intentions the only thanks they were going to get from Morpheus was deletion. I'm not going to get into the validitiy of their sentinence because we'll be here all night but suffice it say it would have been a real shitty "thanx" from Morpheus if he would have pulled the plug.

Ok but let's get back to the 200,000 (and this is the kind estimate) survivors. One moment some poor slob is eating a chilli dog and the next thing he remembers is the world coming apart and then he wakes up in some cocoon. Ok let's say he DOESN'T drown, DOESN'T have etrophy of the muscles and can see perfectly. He's dead in a week anyway. No food , no water , the Real is a wasteland and damn sure no hovercraft is gonna pick his ass up because Zion wouldn't have the resources to locate all these survivors. The kind estimate? I think its safe to say that thanks to Morpheus we would be looking at hopefully 700-1000 survivors (and Zion sure isn't gonna send a "thank you" note anytime soon to ol' Morphy for this). That many could theoretically survive out of a million people ( and we all know there was a hell of alot more people in Mega City) .

So yes I did have a problem with the code bombing thing because I always thought that the point was to save as many humans as you can, not massacre them to prove a point.