Humanity

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  • Humanity
    • As children
      • Desperate for love
        • Why R develops The Secret Guard (56-7)
      • Need praise and encouragement
      • Engage in petty jealousies
      • Each child is different
      • K, R and T seem like any other child
      • Manipulate each other
        • Would they have been any different to those who manipulate them had they been normals?
        • Capacity to accept abuse of others is human
          • Difference bw abuse not as clear defined as hoped
        • In groups define themselves by making outsiders of others
          • Outsider status symbolised by window pane in N
            • Ironic they looked in as though the workers were exotic although the clones are the exotic ones
          • One of ironies that donors can turn friends into outsiders and passively accept unjust crumstances
            • Links to overarching regret and title
    • Opposition
      • "there would always be a barrier against the world seeing you as properly human" (258)
      • Unseen authorities
        • The Cottages
          • Allow freedom
            • Yes
              • "no one would stop us if we wandered off"
                • Allowance of freedom only comes as a result of a lack of intellectual freedom growing up in order to ensure their passivity
                • "wandered"= uncontrolled/ unpredictable
            • No
              • “provided we were back by the day and time we entered into Keffers’s ledgerbook”
                • ·         “ledgerbook”-tracked like animals or prisoners (second-class citizens), lack of freedom
              • Allowance of freedom only comes as a result of a lack of intellectual freedom growing up in order to ensure their passivity
        • Caring
          • Relationships and needs disregarded
            • Chrissie and Rodney separated (221)
      • Schools of "deplorable conditions"
      • Viewed as sub-human to reduce human rights and ethical debates
        • Being seen as human/better treatment of clones would end the donation program
          • "they tried to convince themselves you weren't really like us. That you were less than human so it didn't matter."
      • Clones hidden on fringes of society
    • Romantic relationships
      • Sex
        • Clones discover complicated feelings of attachment and love come with sex
        • Infertile
        • These experiences characteristic of all humans
          • Emotionally and spiritually human despite being a sub-class
      • Love
        • Can fall in love like everyone else
        • These experiences characteristic of all humans
          • Emotionally and spiritually human despite being a sub-class
      • Complex and nuanced relationships a universal experience
    • What separates humans and animals
      • Creativity
      • Curiosity
      • Ability to make autonomous decisions based on what you've learned
      • Heidegger: Our ability to reflect on impending death
        • the donors’ intense awareness of their death, makes them more human than those who take their organs for fear of premature death.  
        • One of key philosophical positions of 20th c.

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