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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 3587326" data-attributes="member: 6562">People like that exist right now. They were given no choice in the matter. Frequently, they find themselves in situations that are dangerous or expensive or both. At least in this case they wouldn't have to pay for their abuse. With no voice or reason to speak, speech centers wouldn't develop. You'd end up with something that lacks several key human capabilities -- it would be an animal. And I honestly don't care if you like to sleep with a purring human-shaped dumb animal, especially if the animal were "hardwired" to enjoy it. I wouldn't particularly respect you, but neither would you horrify me. Yep, that's worse. Unless the shivering made it taste better... mmm, carbonated brain-shrimp!- - -But what all these horror-cases overlook is the massive expense inherent in educating a potential individual such that it actually becomes an individual capable of recognizable conscious thought. Babies are cute, and I don't care to see them eaten, but they could not ever shiver in the horror of their abject helplessness, because they are not conscious of it.- - -If copying & pasting consciousness were possible, then the door to horror is wide open, because the logistical expense of education disappears... so long as you're content eating / screwing / killing the same person over and over, or the same small subset. But the mind-warping horror scenarios are still reduced (vs. "the Cheerios are screaming, each in his own o-shaped voice... ai, the spoon! spoon f'thaghen!")Anyway. I'm looking forward to it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Spoooon! -- N</blockquote>

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