Never cut off your wings.

Your wings are what allow you to leave the ground and fly, to do great things.

Everyone has slightly different wings; their particular super powers.

Once you cut off your wings, you can no longer do those great things.

The machine you are in will take an instrumentalist view to you because it must: "I need this box filled, this person is sitting next to this box, they don't fit because of those things on their back, so to fill the box I need them to cut off their wings."

Someone who takes a non-instrumentalist approach to you will never ask you to cut off your wings.