The Subject (Season 2) — Episode 9

the Alliance because of me I've already fought half the academic world over one serum one extra researcher from 23 years ago isn't gonna scare me and me right plus a husband who can tear doors off I'm starting to understand how you've survived this long

Why did he think sirens could be treated like animals? His theory was internally very complete. Sirens live alone, don't raise offspring, have no writing, no state, no fixed social structure. He argued that intelligence isn't the same as civilization and only civilization requires legal personhood.

equivalent. A lot of people believed it back then, because sirens really did look like the most dangerous kind of solitary predator. But Avren learns language. He remembers a promise for more than ten years. He was hurt when I never came back. He changed himself for Sorin. Which is exactly why your paper broke their old

logic apart. If having a country is what decides whether a life deserves respect, then plenty of solitary sentient species could be excluded too. And and humans never even properly studied whether sirens had social structures before using our own template to decide the answer for them.