There is no such thing as evil being overwhelming. The nuclear war was finally triggered by the next Skynet, and the human world was still severely damaged;
And T800 already knew all of this, but it didn't tell the two protagonists-this was not to let them go to the refuge and surreptitiously live, but to not give them a chance to give up hope in advance.
Robots know "don't stop resisting" better than we do. Robots have never succumbed. No wonder robots have higher consciousness.
The title "Rise Of Machine" is not unreasonable. The rise of robots depends on "death without surrender".
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