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She was intended to live and reproduce, not to die. Experimental animal, parent to domestic animals? Was that what she was destined for? Forced artificial insemination. Surrogate motherhood? Fertility drugs and forced “donations” of eggs? Implantation of unrelated fertilized eggs. Removal of children from mothers at birth… Humans had done these things to captive breeders—all for a higher good, of course.
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It means… to put me on display—take me out to be seen.” “Ah. Yes. I show you off?” “All right,” she said smiling. “I talk… more human soon. You say… if I speak bad.” “Badly,” she corrected. “If I speak badly?” “Yes.” There was a long silence. “Also, goodly?” it asked. “No, not goodly. Well.” “Well.” The child seemed to taste the word. “I speak well soon,” it said.
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“intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.”
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“Your people will all be from what you would call civilized societies. Now they’ll have to learn to live in forests, build their own shelters, and raise their own food all without machines or outside help.” “Will you forbid us machines?” she asked uncertainly. “Of course not. But we won’t give them to you either. We’ll give you hand tools, simple equipment”
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