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The report's author cites, as an example, "case UT-117-UK; Marjorie McCannagh. At 60 IQ, Marjorie was only marginally aware of her surroundings, so her power to sever organic molecular bonds and turn living things into puddles of carbon sludge posed more threat than advantage." (Admittedly, most eruptions improve the subject's body and mind both, cf. Hugo Pinella.) Earlier, the author drew parallels with star athletes, prior to N-Day and the decline of baseline sports, who "made a good deal of money, often with little more than cursory education [...] and insufficient socialization[, which] made for [...] 'hillbillies with money'".
The author recommends that "sociopathic, asocial and criminally inclined subjects" face cautery of the Mazarin-Rashoud node "as early in its eruption as possible", before its effects on the body's self-repair system render it potentially capable of regenerating from such damage.
2006
[Aberrant] A progress report on nova development written at an unidentified Rashoud facility reflects on the problem of novas who lack the intelligence or social awareness to understand what constitutes an appropriate use of their powers. "To that end, this researcher must recommend continued pursuit of the proposed 'M-R lobotomy' treatment."
The report's author cites, as an example, "case UT-117-UK; Marjorie McCannagh. At 60 IQ, Marjorie was only marginally aware of her surroundings, so her power to sever organic molecular bonds and turn living things into puddles of carbon sludge posed more threat than advantage." (Admittedly, most eruptions improve the subject's body and mind both, cf. Hugo Pinella.) Earlier, the author drew parallels with star athletes, prior to N-Day and the decline of baseline sports, who "made a good deal of money, often with little more than cursory education [...] and insufficient socialization[, which] made for [...] 'hillbillies with money'".
The author recommends that "sociopathic, asocial and criminally inclined subjects" face cautery of the Mazarin-Rashoud node "as early in its eruption as possible", before its effects on the body's self-repair system render it potentially capable of regenerating from such damage.
Re: *shudder*
Date: 2006-01-10 04:01 pm (UTC)Scalper Dutch.
Doktor Manfred von Zorbo.
Lady Argentine "King of the World" de Winter.
"General" E. W. Caldwell.
Ms. Hephaestia Geary-Wexler and the rest of the Rational Experimentation Group.
The Ubiquitous Dragon.
None of them had anything to do with Michael, and they didn't even all have Mazarin-Rashoud nodes. No one is exempt from bad judgment or, I daresay, an evil heart. Whether we are seperate species or not, we all sprang from humanity and thus must deal with humanity's failings, writ large.
Re: *shudder*
Date: 2006-01-10 04:22 pm (UTC)...Point taken, Mr. Mercer. I happened, in this post, to be talking about novas, but yeah, all Inspired powers (or any other post-human abilities, whatever you want to call them) do is bring out what's already there (however it got there).
*nods* I think it was Solzhenitsyn who said the line between good and evil runs through every human heart. (Though I don't remember whether he wrote those words before, or after, James T. Kirk literalized them.)