My ex-best friend’s behavior slowly changed over the years from joking back and forth banter to straight bullying. Constantly under the excuse of “it’s just jokes” and “we all do it”, even after expressing multiple times that he was going too far.
Ended up taking years of abuse before finally cutting him out for good
The sci-fi concern over whether computers could ever be truly “alive” becomes a lot more tangible when literal living biological systems are implemented.
Pain is the point for them