The Tin Man: Do Droids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man, that he didn’t...already have." (The music group America, referring to the movie The Wizard of Oz)

What do we consider life...a living, breathing entity that expresses feelings and thinks for one’s self, enforcing a decision as well as putting it into action?

Androids, droids, or whatever you may call them...are they living things? They may not breathe...yet they are operational...they think for themselves...they enforce a decision...and yes, they put it into action. Yet someone has programmed them...are they being told to do something which they do not have the decision to override? Yet...is it possible that they have the choice...to be unrestricted from the regulations from their user?

To be free?

Remember the Tin Man in The Wizard Of Oz? He told Dorothy that he didn’t have a heart, so he went off with her to see the Wizard. Yes, the Tin Man did indeed find the wizard with the rest of the bunch, yet he was told that he must do a task first before he could receive his heart. Yet...throughout the rest of the movie...he cares and loves others...expresses feelings.

All of them could have got what they wanted without the Wizard. They all had the power...within their own selves. They had it already. Inside themselves. All they had to do was believe...and have faith...and it became truth.

Even the Tin Man had the power....within his own self.

So what about clones? It may not seem moral to us...yet we see them. Are they still human? Do they carry their own individual soul - and only rely on themselves - not from the original?

How about those that are Forced attuned? If they are cloned, is it possible that they are still prone, adept?

Past all the morality of what can be, we find a certain feeling from the heart...never experienced exactly the same way before...as with the Tin Man. And we start to realize...if we are androids or droids...if we are just a bunch of humanoid and unhumaniod clones. We have been procreated, born to live a purpose. Someone, something, gave us our Genesis, whether it be a programmer or a clone original. A user, a creator. The knowledge is passed on, and others can learn from it. A lesson is learned, a patron...our discoverer... is taught from our existance.

And we carry on.

I remember when I acted as the Tin Man did...and was looking for a heart...a heart that loves and cares...until I realized...it was already in me. Thanks to that special someone that helped me understand that...yes, you know who you are :)

...Jedi Relan Volkum

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