Tara of Helium

The Rikers are but brainless flesh. They neither see nor feel nor hear, they would starve to death if we did not bring them food. All that they can do for themselves is to take food from a trough and put it in their mouths. The instant one of them is injured or become sick, we desert it for another. As we would suffer the pains of their physical injuries, similarly, do we enjoy the physical pleasures of the Rikers? When your body becomes fatigued, you are comparatively useless. It is sick, you are sick. If it is killed, you die. You are the slave of a mass of stupid flesh and bone and blood.

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