Worth reading, but nowhere near as good. |
To be clear, the poster who was so quick to point out “but the clones AREN’T lesser beings, that’s why you’re WRONG!” was also reading the very comment to which they replied at a surface level. With all due respect, no sh!t they weren’t actually lesser beings. (The “treated as” was implied. Or perhaps the original comment should have said “lesser beings” and “superior beings” to make it even more obvious…). This is the same debate ethical vegans have with non-vegans, BTW. Are cows and pigs and chickens “lesser beings” than us in the first place? And if they are, does that give us the right to make them suffer for our own desires? |
What was the boat allegory? That it couldn't go anywhere? |
But that's the major subtext of the book - are they even human? |
Fair enough. I think we are certainly meant to see them as human going through all of the human emotions, suffering, etc. |