The second variety is a story of justified paranoia and cycles. One, the paranoia against the claws, where anyone you know could be one. Two, the cycles of creation and destruction at their own hands. The claws developed weapons to destroy other claws, and also ended up betraying each other all the time. In retrospect, the robot knew full well who the other one was, and killed a human claiming it was him, showing an aliance. However the IV-V killed a group of claws and another claw, specifically to gain trust, showing they aren't afraid to sacrifice for their own good.
This is remarkably similar to the humans, developing a weapon, the claws, to kill the russians and eventually getting killed by it themselves. The claws are in the same boat, they make weapons that can kill each other, and probably will after killing the humans. It is a bit of irony, how the weapons make weapons to destroy other weapons. Whether or not the Dick wanted to say that humans are like mindless weapons themselves is unclear, but i would hope not. The humans didn't want to kill ALL humans, just the russians, and mostly because they chased them off the planet.
The claws didn't seem to have much of a reason to want to kill each other, other than maybe gaining trust to they could kill more humans. However, they mass produced the weapons they needed, so they can't ONLY want to do it to kill humans, they clearly are being careful like the human masters were.
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