the copy-census: willing volunteers in chairs — sacrifice as A.F.R. doctrine
Or maybe you’re willingly sacrificing your own. Yes? Willing volunteers in chairs. Sacrificing self for the Greater and all that. By adult choice and all that. Just for the sake of causing us harm.
Context
Steeply names the A.F.R.'s test method as its politics: the cell studies the Entertainment by "willingly sacrificing [its] own" — "Willing volunteers in chairs. Sacrificing self for the Greater... By adult choice." The wheelchair-assassins' readiness to die viewing the weapon is the doctrinal core the whole serial circles: a politics of chosen sacrifice against a nation that no longer knows how to choose (072). The A.F.R. can weaponize the Entertainment precisely because it has members who will give their lives to it on purpose.