#and we're supposed to cheer and clap and go WOW THAT WAS SO COOL DO IT AGAIN

[rjalker]

Martha Wells in book 1: here's a class of disposable people!!!

me: okay cool so the point will be that nobody should be considered disposable, right? I can understand why this wouldn't happen in the first story but that's where you're going to build to, right, because the protagonist has to unlearn the propaganda itself?

Martha Wells, seven books into the series: Nope~!!!! They're disposable, it's only a bad thing when it happens to the protagonist. The rest of them are disposable and you should think it's awesome and cool when one of the protagonists tears one of them limb from limb while they're alive :)

and then meanwhile the series she was "inspired by" to write the Murderbot Diaries does. in fact. understand that having a class of disposable people is in fact bad and something that your characters should care about fighting against if they're supposed to be good people. They should in fact care about other people.