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Like Brave New World, it appeals to (most of) our distaste for treating people differently based on their class. Meritocracy and all that.


Sure I get all that. But that theme was poisoned by the fact that, he should not have been in the astronaut program, because heart condition. Which leaves him just a lying cheat, and not sympathetic.


He didn't have a heart condition, that was the whole point, congrats on an epic whoosh.


" high probability of several disorders and an estimated life span of 30.2 years"




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