Then it was a very convincing bit of programming. [Rei scowls right back, but her eyes flicker back towards the theaters. That was...really...messed up.]

It's no less right, but it just means that we probably need to take it up with CERES instead of the robot itself. Machines do what they are programmed to do. and who else would have set that sort of programming? Everything here is so far beyond any technology I know...