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Originally Posted by issybird
<snip> Really, all this was a variation on a love triangle and I found it hard to care. Most especially since it seemed one characteristic of the clones was a persistent emotional immaturity. There was their incredible and universal passivity (with one or two possible exceptions*) in the face of certain death, but it was more than that. The belief that somehow falling in twue wuv would gain them a reprieve? Maybe at 12. But they never grew out of it! <snip>
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In the same way that we breed animals to be passive, perhaps the clones were "bred" to be so.
I found their passivity and acceptance of their fate believable. I think people do go along with the way things are, when they are trained from babyhood that this is their role in life. People who rebel and fight back are the exception rather than the rule I suspect.
These children weren't actually taught very much at all. They could read and write, given that they were supposed to write an essay after they left the school, they did their art, they played games. But that was it. The idea of getting a job in an office, of which Ruth dreamed, was apparently an impossibility.
I do agree that the method of harvesting the organs one at a time didn't make any sort of economic sense, and it was hard to believe that the society that was prepared to run such a system would spend so much time and money looking after the donors between operations. But again, they were less likely to rebel this way than if they knew their lives would come to an end more suddenly.