Everyone always talks about the advance of scientific knowledge as if it’s an unqualified good thing. The vivisectionist, for example, has added considerably to our knowledge of the body and how it all works. He is hailed as forward thinking and courageous, because he is willing to brave certain taboos as he hacks up his living subjects in search of further understanding.

However, no one asks his subjects what they think of the process.

~from the secret journal of Pierce Langdon, Viscount Westfall