[Blunt, perhaps, but not unreasonably so. The answer she gives, it has logic to it, and it's an idea that he can concede because, in truth, he doesn't believe in the concept of a soul even for those who were born into life, rather than artificially created for it.
no subject
And yet--]
Personhood. I don't qualify for that, either.
[He's a weapon, a thing, a tool to be used.]