( okay, it really feels like she needs to speak up here, starting with low warning of — )
Mizuki.
Not all science can be built off the back of unwilling lab rats. It's just not ethical, and what you're talking about sounds scarily close to torturing people for past crimes we cannot judge here.
( because, for the hundredth time, define evil. if someone shows up on this boat with the blood of thousands on their hands, and does nothing more than feast at the buffet and play in the game room, are they still evil? is someone who focuses every urge they have to hurt something on hurting the captain evil or heroic? it's a fine line, and important countermeasures can't be held in limbo while they work their way around moral dilemmas. clarke's tried this route before, and ended up just turning the needle to her own arm. )
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Mizuki.
Not all science can be built off the back of unwilling lab rats. It's just not ethical, and what you're talking about sounds scarily close to torturing people for past crimes we cannot judge here.
( because, for the hundredth time, define evil. if someone shows up on this boat with the blood of thousands on their hands, and does nothing more than feast at the buffet and play in the game room, are they still evil? is someone who focuses every urge they have to hurt something on hurting the captain evil or heroic? it's a fine line, and important countermeasures can't be held in limbo while they work their way around moral dilemmas. clarke's tried this route before, and ended up just turning the needle to her own arm. )