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Severance Is A Brilliant Spin On A Familiar Existential Nightmare
The question of what actually constitutes humanity or sentience is one that has provided fodder for sci-fi and horror stories for decades. Even dating back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstien, the idea of whether or not an «artificial» person was really a person is something we just love to explore every chance we get--with robots, or zombies, or clones, in modern day or in dystopian futures. But, even at their very best, the vast majority of these stories do have clear moral dividing lines--sure, the replicant, or the cyborg, or the clone monster may be scary or hard for us to control, but they're still clearly sentient, right? Think about the robot uprising in Westworld or the tragedies of the Blade Runner franchise--sure, there's plenty of complication (and murder) to go around, but the morality of murding or exploiting a bunch of «artificial» people is still pretty obviously in the wrong.