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The Empathy Correction
Privileged rich kid Fraser Jaensch faces a twenty year prison sentence for a shockingly violent crime. His attorney advises him that his only alternative is to become a subject in a top-secret program of radical therapy.
Fraser thinks it’ll be a breeze. He thinks he got off scot free.
But he has no idea what he’s in for.
Fraser thinks it’ll be a breeze. He thinks he got off scot free.
But he has no idea what he’s in for.
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Published October 30, 2015
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October 15, 2016
When I first read this short story, I thought it was a cliché and that it took some shortcuts to tell the story. Then I read it again and noticed the quote at the beginning of the book, "“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
That quote hits home when you look around the world and see what is happening today. I think we have forgotten, and I think we may be condemned because of it.
This is the story of Fraser, a rich, entitled, spoiled jerk who always gets what he wants. He makes a mistake one night and ends up in big trouble because of it. His lawyer tells him about an experimental treatment that may allow him to skip prison, so he jumps on the opportunity.
From that point on, he doesn't know what is happening to him and neither do we actually. By the time he is pronounced "cured" and released, some strange things have happened including lots of drugs, maybe some surgery, and maybe some brainwashing. I found some of the things described to be old-fashioned, old-science fiction-type things, such as whirring sounds and bright lights, and were not very creative.
That being said, Fraser gets his empathy correction in perhaps the most effective possible way.
It's not the most original story or the most creative, but it does get its message across
That quote hits home when you look around the world and see what is happening today. I think we have forgotten, and I think we may be condemned because of it.
This is the story of Fraser, a rich, entitled, spoiled jerk who always gets what he wants. He makes a mistake one night and ends up in big trouble because of it. His lawyer tells him about an experimental treatment that may allow him to skip prison, so he jumps on the opportunity.
From that point on, he doesn't know what is happening to him and neither do we actually. By the time he is pronounced "cured" and released, some strange things have happened including lots of drugs, maybe some surgery, and maybe some brainwashing. I found some of the things described to be old-fashioned, old-science fiction-type things, such as whirring sounds and bright lights, and were not very creative.
That being said, Fraser gets his empathy correction in perhaps the most effective possible way.
It's not the most original story or the most creative, but it does get its message across
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