Personhood and Identity (Connor and Hayden)

Connor quotes:

1) "If there's such a thing as a soul, and I'm not saying that there is, then it comes when a baby's born into the world. Before that, it's just part of the mother."

2) "He imagines his spirit like a web strung between the thousand recipients of his hands, his eyes, the fragments of his brain, none of it under his control anymore, all absorbed by the bodies and wills of others. Could consciousness exist like that?"

3) "Whether or not souls exist Connor doesn't know. But consciousness does exit, that's something he knows. If every part of an Unwind is still alive, then that consciousness has to go somewhere, doesn't it?"

Hayden Quotes:

4) "The unborn have souls. They have souls from the moment they get made, the law says."

5) "What happens to your soul when you get unwound? Maybe it gets all broken up like the rest of us into a bunch of little pieces."

6) "If it's indivisible, says Hayden, maybe an Unwind's spirit stretches out, kind of like a giant balloon between all those parts of us in other places."

What quotes go together for a paragraph

Connor quote 1 and Hayden quote 4 = Personhood (1)

Connor quote 2 an hayden quote 5 = Identity (2)

Connor Quote 3 and Hayden quote 6 = Ethics (3)

Define Dehumanization

Society can make people seem like resources.

"If there's such a thing as a soul, and I'm not saying that there is, then it comes when a baby's born into the world. Before that, it's just part of the mother."

AND

"The unborn have souls. They have souls from the moment they get made, the law says."

What's the wider idea?

Both explain if society decides who counts as a person, then that affects whose life is valued.

"He imagines his spirit like a web strung between the thousand recipients of his hands, his eyes, the fragments of his brain, none of it under his control anymore, all absorbed by the bodies and wills of others. Could consciousness exist like that?"

AND

"What happens to your soul when you get unwound? Maybe it gets all broken up like the rest of us into a bunch of little pieces."

What's the wider idea?

Both explain that a person is more than their body parts; dividing the body threatens their existence.

"Whether or not souls exist Connor doesn't know. But consciousness does exit, that's something he knows. If every part of an Unwind is still alive, then that consciousness has to go somewhere, doesn't it?"

AND

"If it's indivisible, says Hayden, maybe an Unwind's spirit stretches out, kind of like a giant balloon between all those parts of us in other places."

What's the wider idea?

Both explain that we don't know what happens to identity and it makes readers question if unwinding is ethical.