Sally Manton wrote:
Jenny wrote: <It didn't say he *had.* It said he dreamt of it when in his prison cell. Which rather suggests that he's criminally minded, and wants to commit crimes. Including violent ones, it seems.>
That's still no proof - none whatsoever - that he was arrested or
convicted
of killing anyone.
Sally, I suggest that next time you read my entire email before replying.
<We don't know the circumstances under which Avon kills the visa seller, and> >Avon at least had a motive. Doran shoots two unarmed people and
jokes about
it-- again, more the action of a habitual killer than someone killing because they have to.>
None of which is relevant.
Is that right?
Avon still killed the man - he says so himself
(and I doubt of even a corrupt judiciary would take 'he tried to turn me
in
as I was trying to buy illegal visas' as a defence) - but his conviction was for something else. Quite possibly, he was never suspected or arrested
for
the murder,
When did I suggest that he was?
and there's no reason to assume that Doran was either.
Except for the fact that murder come easily to him, perhaps?
<A man kills one guard and has an implant in his head (which doesn't even seem to stop him killing, or getting into states in which he might
kill)?>
The limiter is clearly both very rare (we don't see it anywhere else,
none
of the others have ever heard of it before)
They haven't encountered it because they have had no reason to. They are not psychopathic killers. Well not in the sense that Gan is anyway.
and seemingly prone to malfunction - it doesn't work very well.
I think it works very well for what it does.
My guess is that it was an experimental thing, and that prisoners were allocated to the experimenters to work on. Scientists in Nazi Germany
were
allowed to carry out all kinds of experiments on prisoners, and I can see the same sort of morality working just fine in the Federation.
A theory not supported by the evidence. Kayn and Renor knows what a limiter is and speak of it in a very matter-of-fact way-- not as if it's something rare. Are they in on the experiment too?
But to test
something designed to stop people killing,
It manifestly isn't designed to stop him killing.
it would make sense to trial it
on prisoners known to kill - and it's quite in character for them to
target
those convicted of killing state functionaries (police, politicians, troopers) as an added turn of the punishment screw.
Is that right? It also makes sense to conduct this experiment on Cygnus Alpha as well, does it? Where there is no one to actually observe the experiment?
Jenny
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