(The original idea and most of the writing was oc, I then used chat gpt to clean up the writing and structure rhe story better.)
Funnily enough the idea to write this came from reading a story about book banning which led to me wondering how we alienate children and use them for political clout more than actually caring about them.
The theme of the story revolves around the consequences of scientific curiosity, the alienation induced by relentless experimentation and the general exploration of existential loneliness within the context of extraterrestrial existence.
Yet that was just a way to make the more general idea of how we use other beings for our benefit no matter how inconsequential. I deliberately didn't specidy any details about the alien while naming the scientist to create a gap in personhood where one has privelege and power over the other.
What knowledge is worth the loss of our empathy?