An Extra’s POV

When considering things logically, humans are often bound by emotion.

Feelings of lethargy, or mental fatigue—perhaps depression and other negative states—tend to get in the way of productivity.

Objectively, humans could function for twelve straight hours—being productive throughout, as long as they had the sustenance and the barest minimum of rest to keep them going.

Eight hours of sleep, then four hours embedded in chunks between the twelve hours of constant productive work. These four hours would include feeding, excretion, resting, and the likes.

Every day. All day. Humans could achieve so much if they dedicated twelve hours of their time to their task.

But… that is rarely the case with people.

How much smarter would the average student be if they constantly dedicated twelve hours to their studies for the years they spent in school?

But, more often than not… they do not do this.

How much more money would be made by the average man if he chose not to take time off work, or indulge in needless breaks?

They simply can not help this, however.

Because inbuilt within humans is the poison of emotion, that makes it impossible to be productive a hundred percent of the time.

There's always something that interferes with the constant stream of productivity. Positive or negative… they still interfere with the necessary activities.

Students engage in pointless discourse, play games, watch movies, and fret over those they cultivate feelings for.

Workers get burnout and mental fatigue, even if their physical self is in a perfect state, if they monotonously focus over a single task for too long.

These shackles of emotions, especially the more negative aspects, make them overall harmful to productivity.

As such, they ought to be culled.

To make the ideal person—one who would be perfectly aligned to their goals—useless feelings would need to be eliminated.

… Permanently.

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really how you feel,

feelings are irrelevant when it comes

stared down on Ater, constantly having his rising feelings being suppressed by the system, he finally loosened his clenched fist

"No… you're wrong."

away from Ater, but that didn't mean he couldn't see the expression

mean

emotions play a key role in how I function." Rey sighed, raising

not to rely

examine everything around me to make what I deem to be the best

matter that the process would take longer than a more automated version of himself. He would be able to act on

preferred method

had a long series of

easier to kill, but

he bore all responsibility

to those allows me to think a lot of my actions through before I engage in them. They also allow me to learn from my mistakes

belly-up, he would feel the pain that

those emotions will make me act without

two of his Skills to [Sacrifice] was indeed something he was beginning to regret, but even

this suppression made me get to it faster, but…

the System controlling his emotions, even without his consent made the

being myself. My worrying, scared, insecure… but also critical, skeptical, and caring self… they'll be

left could only be described as a machine—a hollow version

that. And I don't think

a moment, Ater remained the same. He didn't say anything, but keenly stared

raised his brows and

you

as he heaved a sigh, his

would no longer be the

into a smile and nodded, even going as far as rendering a round

splendid answer, Master!" He beamed brightly. "You never

"E-eh…?"

as he looked at Ater's surprisingly pleased expression. He expected some other kind

thought you were on board with

emotions, Master! I'm not some kind of heartless Monster. Whenever I cause chaos and calamity… I revel in the

was reminded of the kind of entity he was speaking to; a Chaotic Evil

so?" He strained a