Harriet Monkhouse hflysator@jarriere.demon.co.uk wrote:

Julia wrote:

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There've been a number of possible explanations put forward. The one I currently favour is that the limiter was still experimental at that stage, and who better to try it out on than condemned prisoners?

Yes, I think he's a guinea pig for the latest technology. And presumably it doesn't work well enough for them to keep him - perhaps they expected to be able to control more than his capacity for physical violence, but he appears to retain his free will. So they announce a wholly successful development in preventing violence, but drop funding for the project and begin to concentrate their efforts on alternatives such as Pylene-50, which have a more dramatic effect on the personality. -- Harriet

The limiters go haywire, Blake and Vila's conditioning don't work (so presumably it doesn't for others) and how long before the Pylene 50 doesn't work. Probably would have been easier to have no drugs and promote 'politics is for the politicians' (g).

Jacqui