Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
How do you define sentient? It was a big parrot mimicking sounds it had heard. I can't recall anyone ever considering parrots "sentient". I know they are considered the most intelligent birds but sentient is a different thing.
You're confusing sentient with intelligent.
Almost all the things we kill in the game are sentient in some capacity. The robots perhaps not.
Even the wild beasts the roam the land are likely able to conceive of joy and sorrow. They can think for themselves and do what they want. They are by the very definition: sentient.

What they are not is intelligent. Smart and clever, surely. But higher level functions of communication and thought formulation and realizing the abstract, etc., that's the gift of us spoken. And the best tribes too!

The bird is fair game as far as I'm concerned.