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If a splice was one percent human, I don’t think I would care. I would still get someone to kill the one percent human spider-splice in my bathroom. This is, unless killing splices is illegal and we all have implants indicating our identity and vitals. If this were the case, medics would be on their way immediately to assist the splice and the data from my implant would indicate that at the time of the splice’s death, my heart-rate and blood-pressure were not so inconspicuously high. But I digress, the real confusion starts at the more human than inhuman level, which I suppose biologically would start at a splice being 50% human.

At what point do we consider something human? It has to be more than just biology, as we discussed in class. Is it a sense of “humanity”? Is it self-awareness? Is a being that desires “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” human? Similar measurements have been and are being attempted by the Law already. Is a biologically 100% human fetus considered human? We, as humans, apparently still have the right to terminate its right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” What percentage of you is Cherokee? Your percentage of race—race, being a concept us civilized humans invented—determines the privileges the government that desecrated your homeland will grant you back. I hope it’s a long time before we create splices like in Ribofunk, being that our government can barely handle the issues at hand.

This calls to mind Little Worker’s behavior and the fine line between freewill and her pre-programmed sense of duty. Does Little Worker have the equivalent of a human consciousness? If we were to say her train of thought is limited by the pre-programming done by her creator, couldn’t the same be said of us humans? Tis the age old question of whether or not humanity lives under the illusion of freewill, randomness, or by the grace or terror of an ultimate Creator.

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