... or for Thursday, if your partner doesn't mind. I am posting this late, late, late, after all.
We'll keep this simple. Two options.
1) Answer this question, using your own instincts *and* either Silver or McKibben. Is Akin human? Beyond just asking whether he's human or not, you might also evaluate him in terms of value; for instance, one person might argue that he is fundamentally inhuman, but that this is a good thing, while another person might take the opposite side.
2) One of my favorite science fiction novels, Solaris (some of you may have seen the so-so movie version, which bears almost no resemblance to the book, a few years back), includes this fascinating line: "we are in a situation beyond morality." In a world so thoroughly altered as Lilith and Akin's world, does morality as we understand it have any meaning or relevance? While explaning what morality means *to you* as simply as possible, explain why Lilith and Akin's world is (or is not) beyond morality.
Sorry this is so late. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is very, very weak -- my doctor theorizes that the bronchitis rendered me vulnerable to some weird virus, which involves weird surges of fever and intermittent hives. Yuck.
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