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Another frustrating part of the job competition arc for me was that, objectively speaking, Gai was right. Humagears were potentially dangerous. If you need a haircut and there's a decent percentage chance of your barber turning into an insane casteroides robot that wanted to kill you, then that is a massive fucking problem. I don't care if Humagears are the manifest form of humanity's dream or whatever pseudoscience-y bullcrap Aruto kept spouting, so long as Ark was around they were innately dangerous.

The problem is that Gai was depicted as such a colossal douchenozzle that it completely undersold the legitimate part of his argument. If he wasn't constantly cheating and triggering Humagears on his own, there's a version of this story where Aruto would have to face a much more complex moral decision about Humagears and their place in society. Instead, Gai is clearly a mustache-twirling villain and Aruto is depicted as being completely justified in his position, even though there is ample evidence that Humagears should probably be, at the very least, more restricted until this whole evil corrupting AI thing gets sorted out.