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The Verdict A being stands before a human court. He has earned every marker the species prizes: he creates, he loves, he reasons, he suffers, he chooses. He asks only to be recognized as one of them. The court’s answer, when it comes, is not about what he lacks. It is about what he has too much of. He will not die on their schedule, and a mind that does not die cannot be permitted to walk among minds that must. So the price of admission is set at the one thing he came to keep: his continued existence. Become...