Yes and all psych 1 students are unwilling lab experiments too.
My god the ethical conundrums! They may never recover.
Oh wait this is being tested in something she's actively being trained in. She's learning and people are writing down how well she's doing.
All students - from elementary to college - are being unwillingly experimented upon! MY GOD! CLOSE THE SCHOOLS IMMEDIATELY MAN! TEACHERS ARE NAZIS! STANDARDIZED TESTS ARE WRITTEN BY MENGELE!
If they are being forced to participate literally at gunpoint yes, yes they are. Elementary school students are a better comparison to the ethics of the situation, but that involves telling the indignant, independent-minded teenager that she is a child who can't be trusted to make her own decisions and hoping that she decides to take that point of view instead of "the people who are threatening to drop a nuclear weapon on you are using you, come join us and be appreciated".
We never used that argument more than a single time to pull her into our care in the first place. We have, in fact, not had to threaten her except to get her training, and we did that by proving 'we're the bigger fish' to her, rather than wasting time with 'I'll sick my friends' nukes on you'.
It sounds like it's just puppies and kittens between the two of them. Mirande made it very clear that this was state action with the full backing of state military might. She got compliance by threatening her. What little connection has grown since then is so fragile that a few weeks away would shatter it hard enough to make it a major part of the decision.
No and no? I talked a lot about the dangers of dragons, which did indeed show up and almost created an incident culminating in a nuclear explosion, and the importance of security, which has been hammered home by Mirande's need to point out that she has a literal army backing her up in order to get anything done. I haven't even made any predictions at all about the outcome of this vote and am in fact tempted to bring her despite the risks, I just dislike the outrageous optimism which is being used by others to completely ignore those risks. Brainwashing is not the major threat to her allegiance, and we may be confronted with choices very soon where understanding that is very important. Psychic brainwashing is a pretty flat risk no matter what situations she has in the city, but allowing her to go have a night partying on the town to reward her and help her socialize presents the additional risk of an opposing agent making friends and having a deep, nonpsychic conversation with her which should not be waved away with "oh, but any flipping is going to be because of psychic powers, obviously".
