You want to see if someone could survive impaired?
[That seems - completely logical.]
But you're still thinking about them as limbs, as normal, human limbs. They're not. I saw a journal entry the other day talking about how the placement of them was impossible for a human skeleton. [She throws this at him in hopes that coming at it from a different angle will help prove her point.]
I can't say it any other way. They're not just limbs.
[And to circle back to her other point.]
I saw that you said you wanted this done on yourself, that you knew a doctor who could do it, so I'll assume that you know each other from the same world, and that you trust each other. What if, somehow, you're right. What if you survive. Using your own analogy you've just cut off something that is essential, something that is "normal" for you to live here. What would that prove?
But what if I'm right? What if you get your friend to agree, and the surgery just ends up killing you? Think about what you'd be doing to your friend.
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[That seems - completely logical.]
But you're still thinking about them as limbs, as normal, human limbs. They're not. I saw a journal entry the other day talking about how the placement of them was impossible for a human skeleton. [She throws this at him in hopes that coming at it from a different angle will help prove her point.]
I can't say it any other way. They're not just limbs.
[And to circle back to her other point.]
I saw that you said you wanted this done on yourself, that you knew a doctor who could do it, so I'll assume that you know each other from the same world, and that you trust each other. What if, somehow, you're right. What if you survive. Using your own analogy you've just cut off something that is essential, something that is "normal" for you to live here. What would that prove?
But what if I'm right? What if you get your friend to agree, and the surgery just ends up killing you? Think about what you'd be doing to your friend.