Yes, and that implies that joining the Technocracy, as bad as it might be, is considered less awful than death.
I don't think "for at least 50% of my children this will be a fate better than being left to the Black Spiral Dancers" is quite the ringing endorsement you believe it to be.
Yes, and he still said that they'd end up together again and he'd explain everything then. Either he's lying on the Technocracy's behalf-because he certainly didn't need to say that-or things escalated from here.
He was lying because he hoped he'd be able to smuggle Meg out of there at some point, as opposed panicking him into running off and getting hunted down by the cyberwerewolves that were
right there. What was he
supposed to tell his kids?
"Daddy's a super-accountant for The Man, and he's got good news and bad news. The good news is, Lakshmi's not going to be vivisected! Hurray! The bad news, and Meg you're gonna want to brace yourself for this one-"
I genuinely don't see how you can possibly come to the conclusions way you are without an active misreading.
If you're given the lines "Your dad tells you things will be alright. He doesn't meet your eyes." and then shit turns out to be not alright, the natural conclusion here isn't "oh man dad totally thought it'd be alright but he was upset about ideologically betraying our mother".
If you have characters repeatedly point out all the trouble your father has gone to in keeping you out of the Technocracy's line of sight, and he's super nervous about you being found by them, and then he bursts in to your cell and tells you that you're a crazy magic science experiment, the natural conclusion is not "oh man dad totally didn't know we were fucked up and the Technocracy told him everything".
If we're fed human flesh and start going crazy for the first time in our life, and they keep force-feeding us human flesh while we're drugged up, the natural conclusion is not "oh man I bet it's a
lack of human flesh that makes us go crazy, we must be a compulsive cannibal".
As of Revised? Yes. People switch sides. It happens when the sides are more "unfriendly business rivals" than "actual opposing ideologies in a war." Iteration X is infamously a revolving door leading to the Virtual Adepts and the Virtual Adepts are a revolving door leading to Iteration X. He's the kind of guy who could walk away, has the resources to walk away, and if they're locking Meg up that means they're so scared of us that this is like, not high on their priorities list.
Again, when could he have done that? At some point in between the werewolves kicking our door down and the
other werewolves kicking our door down? The guy is clearly a committed Technocrat who is also aware that if his bosses find out his kid is some kind of part-demon mix they will
at best regard them as an excellent addition to the armoury. That's not a depiction that involves pandering to or demonizing the Technocracy, because that's literally what they do. You run a Technocracy quest where roughly 100% of the action has revolved around "cleaning up all the horrible shit the Technocracy does", for god's sake. You
know they're not even close to clean. Why are you trying to whitewash their torture and incarceration of a child?
I guess we're going to be assuming that the Technocracy are just the 1E Technocracy and are stupid evil and do everything for bad reasons, and everything should be read in the most damaging light possible, right?
Is Guantanamo Bay unconscionable, and if so does that mean that
a) Obama is Satan and America is an irredeemable evil to be plunged into the abyss of judgement by the mighty hand of Enkalal'tuk the Cosmic Arbiter?
b) It's a horrible and tangled situation created by a variety of factors and prolonged by convenience and organizational apathy?
And, for extra credit, should the reaction of someone wrongfully imprisoned there change depending on whether a) or b) is true?
Remember to answer in-character, and do not assume they have access to all the details.
I assume their judgment is right until proven wrong because they have like, thousands of guys who are literally inhumanly smart and can also see the future and probabilities. I think it's a fairly decent position, all told, to trust the people who are literally smarter than you.
BIG BROTHER KNOWS BEST
You're absolutely right. Why do we even bother having debates or elections or human rights? Just take all the people who scored highest on a standardized IQ test and put them in charge. They'll never steer us wrong, because they're superior and know best. Lesser people can just switch off their brains - and if they happen to occasionally be tossed in a jail cell without a word of explanation and drugged and tortured, then they can rest easy in the knowledge that it was statistically likely to have been the right thing to do for someone, somewhere, from their point of view.
At this point you've given up on debating over morality on the basis that alien intelligences said they were right.
Ironically enough, this is quite literally "God made me do it".
