Thread: Elf Kittens
View Single Post
Old 08-12-2020, 03:51 AM   #11
Prince Charon
 
Prince Charon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2012
Default Re: Elf Kittens

Quote:
Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
I assume that in actual practise "Elf Kittens" would be conditioned to dislike/be uncomfortable with speaking. It would make it a little harder to arrest/prosecute their trafficers, and their be fewer safety issues. After all, in deep space, communication issues can get deadly.

Human traffickers in our real world use a varriety of tricks to create fig leaves of legality. They'd do the same in a world like this.
It probably depends on where the Elf Kittens were designed, or where some of them were born. TransHuman Space has some really horrifying polities, legally and culturally speaking (as in, you're writing like the Elf Kittens are illegal in general, whereas there are a number of places in-setting where they wouldn't be).
__________________
Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life.

"The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates."
-- Tacitus

Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted.
Prince Charon is offline   Reply With Quote