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He’s capable of improvement, even if temporary.
these things don’t speak.
to date, we have not discovered a confirmed sentient species that doesn’t speak.
What we all do, Isabel, is speak.”
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Janice Meyer
A sentience case is the sort of thing lawyers live to argue, on either side.
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Suspected Sapience Report
So I might as well just shut up.” “Actually, you can’t do that now,” Sullivan said.
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the judge orders the evidence examined by Colonial Authority experts on xenosapience,
At least xenosapient experts would come to make a determination one way or another.
from the Colonial Authority - which makes it not Is9bel’s responsibility, she becomes merely a witness.
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But it’s IS evidence that they’re like humans - haha
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Or, like humans, they’re glad to be rid of the interlopers and able to relax again in their own home without the visitors.
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Haha - just what I was going to question
“You’ll do something good for her career for once,” Aubrey said. “She’ll get kicked upstairs, you’ll get kicked upstairs, even Bourne here will get kicked upstairs.”
“So that takes cares of the humans,” he said. “What about the fuzzys?”
“Give them their own reservation.
Ouch - here’s the colonialism writ large
“It’ll make me look like an asshole,” Holloway said. “Everyone thinks you’re an asshole anyway, Holloway,”
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You have the power to get the right ruling here for everyone.” “Sure,” Holloway said. “And all I have to do is make Isabel look like a fool.”
“Not to put too fine a point on it, Holloway, but you’ve done that before, haven’t you?”
Haha - he should have recorded the meeting!
Haha - conclusive evidence of (human) sentience.
Pinto looked up, as if calling to someone or something.
The voice / language criterion!
Anyone who didn’t like DeLise was all right by Holloway at this point, regardless of species.
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Anyone who didn’t like DeLise was all right by Holloway at this point, regardless of species.
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unintentionally sardonic look.
That’s evidence of (human) sentience too.
lawyerly
Better to be a monkey and not be able to understand what’s been taken from you, than to be a man and be able to understand all too well—and be helpless to stop it.
that way Holloway knew was the fuzzy telling him it required his assistance.
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communication
Papa squeaked.
Papa opened its mouth again.
Papa opened its mouth a third time
SPEECH - commands given and obeyed!
Sullivan
Holloway.
“You and Isabel are like witnesses, not defendants.” “Right,” Holloway said. “It’s the fuzzys who are the defendants.”
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