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Please humour me the fact I've no desire to go down there and find out for myself: was all the tech from the genetics labs destroyed? The computers are what I'm wondering about, specifically.

I believe some were retrieved shortly after the place was discovered, as well, but I admit I have no idea who they ended up with. Word on either would be appreciated. I have a personal investment, as much as I'm loathe to associate myself so directly with the place.

Thank you.

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It's not my place to question.

That's never stopped you before.

Are you objecting to me stopping?

And if I was?

I would be quite surprised.

Oh, good. Shaking things up every once in a while always helps to keep it from getting boring.

You're saying you want me to argue with you.

No, I'm saying that I'm finding it rather disquieting that you aren't.

That's foolish.

Why?

Because there's nothing "disquieting" about simply refusing to argue. That is why. I just don't think it's worth arguing.

What's disquieting is seeing someone forgo what would normally be their chosen course of action.

Are you "disquieted" when someone changes their bedtime?

If they have always kept to early nights and suddenly start staying up, or perhaps flip to sleeping the day away and being active during the night, or start experiencing insomnia? Yes.

Though perhaps "concerned" would be the better term.

Fine. I'll argue. Will that make you happier?

Is my happiness important?

[A pause.]

Everyone's happiness is important.

So you'll be going out of your way to make sure everyone on the ship is happier from now on. I imagine that's going to take a lot of work. Very selfless of you.

That is what I have always endeavored to do, so it's not precisely a radical development.

No, you have always endeavoured to make sure they're safe. Two related but different things.

I see the difference as being so small as to be negligible.

Even if someone was happiest when they were engaged in mindless vandalism? Or arson, maybe. Theft. I could go into the nastier practices that some people take enjoyment from, but I'd rather not waste time typing them out.

No one is actually made happy by those things. Not unless they have a severe mental illness.

In your idea of society. But as time has proven, we have examples from many different kinds of societies on board.

All right. So someone kills and it makes them happy. Would you define that person as normal?

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