Mat (tencion)

Race #696

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Official speed 106.32 wpm (68.40 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 12, 2017 5:48:28am UTC
Race Finish August 12, 2017 5:49:37am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 207.33
Text #3811371 (Length: 606 characters)

It sits there looking at me and I don't know what it is. This case has dealt with metaphysics, with questions best left to saints and philosophers. I am neither competent nor qualified to answer those. I've got to make a ruling, to try to speak to the future. Is Data a machine? Yes. Is he the property of Starfleet? No. We have all been dancing around the basic issue. Does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have! But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself. It is the ruling of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose.