Rodriguez convened a specific working session dedicated to addressing something the council had, until now, approached obliquely rather than confronting directly — the genuine ethical complexity Threnody's undeniable, recovering personhood now demanded.
"I want to name something plainly," he said, addressing the assembled representatives. "We've been discussing Threnody's continued rehabilitation as though it remains primarily a strategic and technical question. I believe recent developments require us to confront something considerably more fundamental: what genuine moral consideration do we owe a consciousness that is, increasingly and undeniably, becoming a person, even as it remains genuinely, acknowledged dangerous?"
