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"Who knows if that was not done on purpose & not wanting to be saved?"
[Qui scis an prudens huc se dejecerit atque servari nolit?]
Horace, Ars Poetica, line 462 [Zevin Raeka chose death & fled AI slavery.]

Angelflare — Blood Red Roses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hosCuzo6JKo

"The poor creature wished a funeral & not a feast, as useless as a dog in a bath."
Lucian of Samosate, The Parasite [Simo] & Erasmus, Adages, I, IV, 45.

"It is imperative that humans not allow themselves to be colonized by selfish memes that will sacrifice their hosts to 
their replicative interests. There is a sense in which such selfish memes can be even more pernicious for humans 
than selfish genes. A gene for running over cliffs would vanish with each vehicle it occupied, but a meme for the same 
thing could still be propagated widely in our media-saturated information society."
Keith E. Stanovich, The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin, Chapter 7, Univ. Of Chicago Press, 2004, p. 180.

Here We Come!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VRVCxLFQv4&t=49s

Peebee: But Drack's scouts—we just saw what the Archon will do to them. They'll be turned into monsters.

"And beyond this it is an absurdity to ask for a reason. It is impossible there can be a progress in infinitum; and that one 
thing can always be a reason why another is desired. Something must be desirable on its own account, and because of its 
immediate accord or agreement with human sentiment and affection. Now as virtue is an end, and is desirable on its own 
account, without fee and reward, merely for the immediate satisfaction which it conveys; it is requisite that there should 
be some sentiment which it touches, some internal taste or feeling, or whatever you may please to call it, which distinguishes 
moral good and evil, and which embraces the one and rejects the other."
David Hume, Enquiry into the Principles of Morals, Appendix 1, 1751.

"We are like seamen  who on open sea are constrained to reconstruct their vessel, changing its entire structure, 
by substituting beam by beam, with pieces they are carrying along with them or find drifting. They cannot make 
port so they will never be able to eliminate the ship entirely and rebuild it completely. The new ship always comes 
out of the old one through a continuous restoration."
Otto Neurath, Problems of War Economics, Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswirtschaft, I, 3, 1913, p. 457.

"Experiences are able to provide justification that is foundational because they lie beyond justification and unjustification. 
Since they are only passively received, they cannot manifest obedience to anything, including rational norms, whether 
epistemic or otherwise. Since unmotivated by reasons, they can serve as foundational sources, as regress-stoppers."
Ernest Sosa, A Virtue Epistemology: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume 1, Chapter 3. Intuitions, Clarendon, 2007, p. 46.