The Value of Human Life
What is the value of human life? Should you be able to put a price on the life of another? Should you be able to buy, sell, and trade a life? Who gets to decide who's lives are more valuable, who's lives are not, and who gets to live or die? These are all questions that are raised and discussed in "Unwind". In this future, it would seem society doesn't particularly view a human life as valuable, at least not enough to stop people from having the ability to take it away.
Page 23
"You're a good musician, but..."
"As I said, you've reached your potential."
"As far as you can go"
"Perhaps if you had chosen a less competitive course of study"
"Well, that's all water under the bridge"
"Our hands are tied."
"There are unwanted babies born everyday -and not all of them get storked."
"We're obliged to take the ones that don't"
"We have to make room for every new ward."
"Which means cutting 5% of our teenage population."
"You do understand, don't you?"
Page 6
Connor's parents don't know that Connor knows he's being unwound, He wasn't supposed to find out, but Connor has always been good at ferreting out secrets. Three weeks ago, while looking for a stapler in his dad's home office, he found airplane tickets to the Bahamas. They were going on a family vacation over Thanksgiving. One problem, though: There were only three tickets, His mother, his father, his younger brother. Not ticket for him. At first he just figured the ticket was somewhere else, but the more he thought about it, the more it seemed wrong. So Connor went looking a little deeper when his parents were out, and he found it. The Unwind order.
The date on the order was the day before the Bahamas trip. He was going off to be Unwound, and they were going on vacation to make themselves feel better about it.
What is the value of human life? Should you be able to put a price on the life of another? Should you be able to buy, sell, and trade a life? Who gets to decide who's lives are more valuable, who's lives are not, and who gets to live or die? These are all questions that are raised and discussed in "Unwind". In this future, it would seem society doesn't particularly view a human life as valuable, at least not enough to stop people from having the ability to take it away.
Page 23
"You're a good musician, but..."
"As I said, you've reached your potential."
"As far as you can go"
"Perhaps if you had chosen a less competitive course of study"
"Well, that's all water under the bridge"
"Our hands are tied."
"There are unwanted babies born everyday -and not all of them get storked."
"We're obliged to take the ones that don't"
"We have to make room for every new ward."
"Which means cutting 5% of our teenage population."
"You do understand, don't you?"
Page 6
Connor's parents don't know that Connor knows he's being unwound, He wasn't supposed to find out, but Connor has always been good at ferreting out secrets. Three weeks ago, while looking for a stapler in his dad's home office, he found airplane tickets to the Bahamas. They were going on a family vacation over Thanksgiving. One problem, though: There were only three tickets, His mother, his father, his younger brother. Not ticket for him. At first he just figured the ticket was somewhere else, but the more he thought about it, the more it seemed wrong. So Connor went looking a little deeper when his parents were out, and he found it. The Unwind order.
The date on the order was the day before the Bahamas trip. He was going off to be Unwound, and they were going on vacation to make themselves feel better about it.
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