Not sure if it’s the one you had in mind, but Suzette Elgin had a series of short pieces on her Livejournal about cyberdragons—cute robot dragons who triggered all the same nesting instincts as real children, and who adults loved more than their children. Several of the pieces deal with the interaction of a horrified society with a terrorist group called Humanity First or somesuch, who basically go around kidnapping and publically destroying cyberdragons
Not sure if it’s the one you had in mind, but Suzette Elgin had a series of short pieces on her Livejournal about cyberdragons—cute robot dragons who triggered all the same nesting instincts as real children, and who adults loved more than their children. Several of the pieces deal with the interaction of a horrified society with a terrorist group called Humanity First or somesuch, who basically go around kidnapping and publically destroying cyberdragons
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