Binya answers “So why was it even necessary to use the...”

Mark Taverna asked this question about The Institute:

So why was it even necessary to use the psychic children? The Institute had highly trained strike-teams to kill the children's families and abduct them. Why not eliminate the morally and ethically repugnant method of using the children at all? Just use the assassination teams to kill the threats? Smith said there was no point in continuing the project without the kids, but the kids were actually unnecessary!

Binya I think because killing random people and kidnap random children and make it look accidental is far less suspicious than killing some important figure…moreI think because killing random people and kidnap random children and make it look accidental is far less suspicious than killing some important figure.Moreover, the number of children gone is missing is high anyway so no one is going to bother finding the relation between each case like Wendy said in the book in her discussion with Tim about the missing children of the U.S.(less)

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