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<span class="mu-g">”Don't you have medical cures and technology for this kind of thing? You could just fix it with a machine!”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Maybe, but machines take time and energy to commission and deploy. I don't have time to perform an untested corrective surgery, especially on someone of low genetic value. This is a birth defect, and is clustered with other birth defects-”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Why not ask the mother? Let her decide.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Pfft- yeah right. That's just about the <span class="mu-i">last</span> person you should ask. Mothers will be too emotionally attached to their children, they'll gladly raise a lost cause because their hormones will tell them so. Elective abortions are a minority in the Hegemony; the state decides if a woman's offspring is viable or not. That is the way things should be.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”You still want me to kill a kid for such a minor thing. You have the technology to save most, if not all of the babies. Why are you killing them at all?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Why? That's the natural way of things. Vetuck are a little different then Jaxtian primates; but childhood is the most common time of death for your species in nature as well. It was once that <span class="mu-i">two thirds</span> of children would die before reaching sexual maturity. They'd die of disease, miscarriage, starvation, predation- any number of things. Even at the height of our strictest gene culls the number of children allowed to live was still much more then that.”</span>
He sounds so flippant about it.
<span class="mu-g">”How can you even say that? “Allowed” to live.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”What? They <span class="mu-i">are</span> being allowed to live. It's a privilege not given to the vast, vast overwhelming majority of all species and all living things throughout all of time and history. Millions of sperm die while only one inseminate. Two die for one to become an adult. Of them; not all reproduce. It's the filter. It keeps the species strong.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”You don't <span class="mu-i">have</span> to make things like that! It isn't nature; it's technology and your choice. It is infanticide!”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”<span class="mu-i">Infanticide</span> is normal. Every society since the dawn of time to today practiced infanticide. It is merely more efficient and sure proof method of infanticide. Children were once born, found weak or lacking, grow to a few years old before the parents realize they could not learn as well as other kids, grew weak and sickly, couldn't walk or speak- and then their heads would be smashed against the rocks. Or as the Vetuck preferred to do it- simply walk away from them and if they cannot follow- they would become food for the predators. Is what I said inaccurate? Now we can kill them cheaply, quickly, easily- before forcing a woman to go through a traumatic birth and having the baby ripped from her arms to end its misery. Now, a little snip or internal laser and it's done quick.”</span>
