“Several of the people on the list had already been rehabilitated, but far too many mistakes continued to slip through the cracks. Like this boy.He read the report again—the eight-year-old was showing signs of increasing rebellion. In response, his trainer had put him on a harsher regimen. Henry believed the boy should have been eliminated at the first hint of trouble. There was no cogent reason to perpetuate the cultivation of defective genes.But he didn’t have carte blanche over such decisions...—the other Councilors had vetoed his suggestions. Too many childhood rehabilitations, they’d said, and the populace would begin to grow uneasy.“Another flaw,” he noted, inputting more data. Silence should’ve made them impervious to such concerns. But too many of his brethren—no, not his brethren; they were nothing more than dull primates to his mind of absolute Silence—were still driven by the primitive instinct to protect the young, even when those young proved defective.Entering two more names, he closed down the encrypted file and sent it to its hiding place deep within his computer archives.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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