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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by donquichotte on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:35AM (#15660794)
The TV Series "Dollhouse" also explores this, although there the actors can only be rented on a day-to-day basis and their memory is wiped (OR IS IT?) after every assignment.
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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by emidln on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:15PM (#15664511)
Gibson's Neuromancer touches on this with the backstory for how Molly Millions paid for her cybernetic enhancements as a "meat puppet".
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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by tyingq on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:35AM (#15661334)
That seems like a wiser operating plan. Avoids any long term deception.
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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by Yizahi on Thursday November 09, 2017 @09:56AM (#15662865)
You should check how Dollhouse ends then :) .
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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by cableshaft on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:20AM (#15663094)
Suddenly and without resolution? :)
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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by smnrchrds on Thursday November 09, 2017 @12:07PM (#15664013)
Like every other Fox sci-fi series. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me five times, shame on me.
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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by jandrese on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:48PM (#15664788)
I thought they destroyed society by the end? All of the nuanced ethical considerations replaced by straight up supervillainy with mind reprogramming noise being broadcast over the radio to everybody in the world and turning them into crazed murderers.
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