The robot valet Uncharles, on the last page of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model (2024), “Epilogue,” p. 373.
Excerpt
“Justice is a human-made thing that means what humans wish it to mean and does not exist at all if humans do not make it,” Uncharles said. “I suggest that ‘kind and ordered’ is a better goal. It is possible that the world was once both kind and ordered. It is possible that it may be so again.”
It’s telling, I think, that Tchaikovsky practiced law before becoming a sci-fi author. Justice plays a significant role towards the end of the novel.
