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The Spirit of This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It's Going to Hurt You
There are no rules as to what one must do when incarcerated for having unorthodox consciousness. There is no clear road to repentance. People may be very arbitrarily and without due process, deprived of their civil rights. And if you are defined as non human, there's precious little you can do about it. Everything you say that sounds human will be taken as a kind of utterance of a mechanical man - imitating humanness out of lunatic cunning. A lot of these people are not dangerous until provoked into being dangerous by being treated as machines and in generally, defined as nonhuman.