SamuraiMegas wrote:What does he say to that?^
He doesn't talk to you or eat for several days, then right as you're convinced he's going to starve himself to death to spite you, he reasons out loud to you that just because he's a program doesn't mean his existence has no meaning or that he has no reason to exist. He starts by quoting Descartes, "I think therefore I am," and affirms that he does think, and that he is hungry, and that you should feed him already.
The fact that I had actually started to care whether he "lived" or "died", followed by a pretty sound argument that he was, though in a very limited and manufactured sense, a living being, was handled shockingly well on an intellectual and emotional level. Got into some very deep philosophical questions of what makes a life in a very unpretentious manner -- they managed to truly make it feel like his feelings had been hurt, and that he truly was wrestling with what it meant to be alive, even though he'd been programmed to do so. Truly impressive stuff.