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It's the fatal flaw in their whole organization. Committed to humanizing and rescuing synths, but unable to give them personhood when it really matters. Instead of providing them care or rehabilitating them, it's simply easier to treat them like a machine and hit the reset button. It doesn't come with less risk, either. The synth you can shunt Curie into is braindead as the result of a failed wipe. Nor is it safer for people who discover later on that they ARE synths - Barbara, Danse, Harkness in fo3, are among many who suffer the consequences of the Railroad's lie.

And it is for many extremely distressing to realize that they are, in fact, a synth. It brings to light an entire slew of ethical concerns - questioning whether or not they're a replacement, what memories of theirs are authentic, if their loved ones are safe to be around. Synths who go through this discovery have to go through an extreme death of identity, and they don't even have the option of returning to the Railroad for help, because once they leave the Railroad, they're on their own. The Railroad are the only ones that they know might approach them with empathy and kindness, and they're left with NO way to contact anyone who belongs to the Railroad.

I spent far too long on something this fucking stupid

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