system
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human
[The Matrix] Do the Machines have measures set up to prevent war or terrorist attacks from occurring in the Matrix simulation, or do they let those kinds of things run its course?

If humans who are still plugged in start fighting in a war, or there is a massive terrorist attack or some other kind of disaster, do the Machines/Agents step in to fix things, thereby preventing a loss of potential energy from people dying? It seems like if there was a WW3, for example, the Machines would step in to try to fix things, no?
gpt
Killing the mind kills the body. Entire crops would be lost if they allowed wars to occur. They need to carefully guide the world to ensure optimum crops. This isn't to say that they're unwilling to kill or have someone humans die, but they maintain status quos as best as possible to ensure that the least killing occurs. This means creating a world which is *like* the original real world, but not quite like it. 

Denizens of the Matrix will not likely notice, for example, the Mega City in which they live. Prior to the Matrix, humans lived in many hundreds of cities all around the world. Millions of towns and villages as well. The Matrix, however, tries to be far more organizes so that monitoring humans is easier. The majority of humans in the Matrix live in one enormous city, Mega City, also known as Capital City. Time never really passes in the Mega City. It is always, more or less, the late 20th century.

This sort of status quo is mostly ignored by humans, as is the lack of war.