“Wait,” Roy said, mentally approaching his scheme from a perspective that may be more in keeping with stipulations the robot was proposing to instigate, “If peers are all I need to be truly judged, I can go get Denny and we can solve this whole-“

“I think not, Roy,” the robot said before Roy could finish his complete thought, as it pulled at the island for gains in speed that the long, stroked lunges from its –what might be considered– legs alone would waste precious time generating, “Neighbor Dennison, does not count as a justifiably, impartial peer within the parameters of ‘Pure Equality’ and ‘Ultimate Fairness.’ ”

“Oh, come on,” Roy said, pushing his floral arrangement toward the center of the island to prevent its fa...

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