Experience: Righteousness

“'The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I’m a person.' He was angry, and I could see he was torn between ending the fight and trying once more to beat me down. 'You’re being unfair, as usual. You know we’ve always treated you well—done everything we could for you.' 'Everything but treat me as a human being. You’ve boasted time and again that I was nothing before the experiment, and I know why. Because if I was nothing, then you were responsible for creating me, and that makes you my lord and master.”