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WCDT Strips 4006-4010 (20th-25th May, 2019)

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Tyr:
To your Ethical Debate Hook: I am doing that later today(it's 4am). Without going into too much detail, I'm taking over something my mother would normally do so she stays home to recover from illness. 

Eternal_Newbie:
Considering everything May's been through, I get the feeling that she takes bodily autonomy very seriously. And I think she would react very badly to waking up in another chassis without anyone bothering to get her permission to do so. I also can't see anyone reputable doing something like that even in an emergency, as we saw with Roko and her chassis getting destroyed.

How she would react to someone offering the funds to either buy another chassis or repair this one I don't really know. May is an interesting character, but I find it hard to predict her. But again she seems very aware of power dynamics and my gut feeling is that she would be reluctant to take a loan from Sven. But this storyline has already gone in unexpected directions, we will just have to see where it goes.

JoeCovenant:

Hang on...
Sven's 'loaded' yeah?

Maybe May will get to be a fighter jet yet! :)
(Or at least get a better battery!)

Whereas the 'they two are SO gonna hook up!" was obvious from the meet-cute in the alley, (I think about 75% of us 'called' this one!) I could see this becoming a thing!

TheEvilDog:
Sven is loaded in the sense that he can afford a two storey apartment, not "I can a buy a fighter jet!", he's not that successful a song writer.

BenRG:
I'd say that he could definitely afford a decent chassis; they seem to be in the 'decent family car' price range.


--- Quote from: Eternal_Newbie on 23 May 2019, 03:31 ---Considering everything May's been through, I get the feeling that she takes bodily autonomy very seriously.
--- End quote ---

I'm honestly not sure about this. Whilst I agree that May would not like having things done to her without her being consulted, even in an emergency, I don't think that she has any particular emotional connection to her chassis; her attitude would be: "The damn thing wouldn't even boot anymore? Okay, that explains the derma layer instead of rigid plastic!". So long as she got one that left her still recognisably her, I suspect that her main problem would be her pride being undermined by someone thinking that they needed to help her.

FWIW, I suspect that the 'long pole' in any 'May gets a new body' arc would be convincing the Department of Corrections bureaucracy that the current chassis is unserviceable and then convincing them that they don't need to provide a replacement, which would likely be worse.

Basically, it is this dead hand of the state that would make any body swap have to be done without consultation (in the even where it was impossible to restart May for whatever reason). I can't see the DoC providing a server with a virtual environment to discuss it with her without a pile of paperwork that could take weeks or months to process, so it would become an issue of how do do the least harm in the most reasonable time-frame.

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