He is neither a green flag nor a red flag. This is the first time I’ve seen a grey flag. Guwon doesn’t react to events out of malice; he doesn’t do what he does because he’s cruel. It’s as if he’s a computer that’s been programmed with directives, and he just moves along those predetermined tracks—nothing more.
A computer doesn’t and will never understand things like empathy or forgiveness. A computer executes the prompts it’s been given, period. It can’t deviate from those tracks, because, first of all, it doesn’t even know the tracks exist. He thinks in absolutes: are you useful to the city? Then come with me. Are you not? Then you can die.
And why the rule of “don’t get in Guwon’s way”?
Because, like I said, he functions like a machine. He only works if all the gears move in sync. If one of them gets stuck, he is “forced” to eliminate it.
A computer doesn’t and will never understand things like empathy or forgiveness. A computer executes the prompts it’s been given, period. It can’t deviate from those tracks, because, first of all, it doesn’t even know the tracks exist. He thinks in absolutes: are you useful to the city? Then come with me. Are you not? Then you can die.
And why the rule of “don’t get in Guwon’s way”?
Because, like I said, he functions like a machine. He only works if all the gears move in sync. If one of them gets stuck, he is “forced” to eliminate it.