Janeway was very “shut up ya dumb hologram! I’m indifferent about whether you should even have any rights at all, so don’t push it or you’re next” about it
It was more a Hippocratic oath thing than actual empathy, if my memory serves. Or at least I took that way. At any rate, an episode written to be divisive and with no clear answer, and only the program coded to “do no harm” is against terminating the patient? I doubt that very much.
The Doctor was massively against it.
Janeway was very “shut up ya dumb hologram! I’m indifferent about whether you should even have any rights at all, so don’t push it or you’re next” about it
It was more a Hippocratic oath thing than actual empathy, if my memory serves. Or at least I took that way. At any rate, an episode written to be divisive and with no clear answer, and only the program coded to “do no harm” is against terminating the patient? I doubt that very much.