Was he dead though? Or was he fully alive as part of Tuvix’s consciousness? Tuvix had incentive not to tell anyone if he heard the voices of Tuvok and Neelix screaming in agony in his head. We frankly don’t know.
But he clearly wasn’t. They don’t have the technology to bring an actually dead person back to life. So it should be assumed they were both still alive. From our current perspective of the universe they didn’t exist but I’d extrapolate that out to be a bigger version of object impermanence.
Basic rights aren’t contingent on not being annoying.
Do orchids have rights? Tuvix was, technically, a plant.
Basically a walking salad that Janeway refused to toss.
Well yeah, he wasn’t holodeck Irish.
And what about Tuvok’s rights?
Tuvok was dead. You don’t kill someone to revive another person or even two - otherwise transplant waiting lists would be much smaller
Was he dead though? Or was he fully alive as part of Tuvix’s consciousness? Tuvix had incentive not to tell anyone if he heard the voices of Tuvok and Neelix screaming in agony in his head. We frankly don’t know.
But he clearly wasn’t. They don’t have the technology to bring an actually dead person back to life. So it should be assumed they were both still alive. From our current perspective of the universe they didn’t exist but I’d extrapolate that out to be a bigger version of object impermanence.