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Maybe the real unethical experimentation on nonconsenting subjects was the friends we made along the way
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"No no no I'm not confused just it was a lot um. Okay. I mean, I was still reeling a bit from the soul thing. Um. Con...sent? Is that the one you mean?"

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"It's the general category, at least. Consent being required even if what you're doing won't hurt people."

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Hoooo boy. "Okay do you want me to, um, try to—get into why I think that's important, or...?"

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"No, I think I've got it down, it did register as a reason not to go ahead with the experiment. Unless you think I'm missing something about it."

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"I dunno, you just seemed confused by why it would matter even if it won't hurt people but if you've got it you've got it," she says, dubiously.

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"Sometimes I'm flippant. It's not a top priority."

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"...okay since you don't seem opposed to me talking a lot and you want me to help you with this whole morality thing I'm gonna talk more.

"Would you object to someone doing that whole thing to you? Like, knock you out and look at five percent of your soul and install a little implant?"

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"Like to see them try. But, yes, I would. It's significantly rooted in having an actual use for my soul, though. If I imagine the same thing happening for... I don't know, some hypothetical vital force that I have no knowledge or need of... there's only the indignity of being defeated to contend with, and I don't think people feel the same way about that or they'd behave differently."

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"Okay so suppose there's some hypothetical vital force in you that you have no knowledge of, and that includes obviously the knowledge of whether you have need of it. Now this person does this to you, we'll get to the indignity thing later because I think you're underestimating how much people care but for now let's ignore it, they take five percent of your, I don't know, let's call it florb—that's such an undignified name—let's call it vitas, that sounds like it could be important. So they do that, and you get the implant, and then later you find out about it, or—actually, no, lemme start over, sorry, I'm not very organised.

"There's some part of you called a 'vitas'. You have heard that that 'vitas' contains all of the important parts of you, that it's the part of you that goes to Valhalla or Niflheim or wherever. Someone knocks you out, takes five percent of it, looks at it, then attaches an implant on you so you can keep it. If they claim you actually don't have a use for it, or that grabbing those five percent won't change anything about how much or how well you can use it, do you believe them?"

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