Thank you for the thoughts. There is a throwaway reference to people becoming “slightly more brazen”, but (at least to me) things like the terrifying death-shoots you suggest didn’t strike me as that likely. I don’t want to die, but I also don’t want to bleed out slowly in pain. Being told I won’t remember it doesn’t necessarily change my logic. Maybe other people would feel otherwise and I am wrong on how this would go.
Related to your crime idea. One thing that was removed from the story was Jane seeing TV news coverage about war crimes trial. Some warlord is being tried for a campaign of damage against the bodies of enemy combatants (Geneva conventions say the bodies should be preserved for post-war reviving). Some grey-zone stuff where burning a corpse is obviously wrong, but maybe if you happen to shoot someone with an anti-tank weapon and vapourise them its less clear cut. Didn’t make it in because it was too fiddly to explain clearly, and very plot-irrelevant.
Thank you for the thoughts. There is a throwaway reference to people becoming “slightly more brazen”, but (at least to me) things like the terrifying death-shoots you suggest didn’t strike me as that likely. I don’t want to die, but I also don’t want to bleed out slowly in pain. Being told I won’t remember it doesn’t necessarily change my logic. Maybe other people would feel otherwise and I am wrong on how this would go.
Related to your crime idea. One thing that was removed from the story was Jane seeing TV news coverage about war crimes trial. Some warlord is being tried for a campaign of damage against the bodies of enemy combatants (Geneva conventions say the bodies should be preserved for post-war reviving). Some grey-zone stuff where burning a corpse is obviously wrong, but maybe if you happen to shoot someone with an anti-tank weapon and vapourise them its less clear cut. Didn’t make it in because it was too fiddly to explain clearly, and very plot-irrelevant.