#yada yada he might skip over the whole ‘informed’ part of informed consent

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I haven’t read the books so perhaps I don’t have the full context for what TFP Shockwave’s experiments were like, whether he went in with a question to be answered or coming up with a hypothesis after the fact to justify the means, but I’d think it’d be interesting if he kinda had like… all the scientifically proven basis to form a question and ask a particular bizarre scenario.

Like for instance, Shockwave might have countless evidence that torture is not as effective of an interrogation technique as apparently both sides make it out to be (if OP’s threat to Soundwave was any indication of anything), but instead of testing a much nicer method, Shockwave develops the cortical psychic to GUARANTEE the authenticity of the information instead of idk, appealing to the captive. Might even suggests that the evidence points to flaws on both the tortured (prone to lying just to get out sooner) AND the torturer (subject to distraction and accepting conflicting statements), rather than solely one party or the other.

The thing is though, it’s hard to wonder WHAT questions Shockwave may seek an answer for, unknown questions that somehow connect with just a lot of predacon DNA (either their revival or in hybridisation). Because offering the alternative - senseless scientific violence - seems a very bland motive or whatever this would be ESPECIALLY for Shockwave; the cold pursuit of science is his mojo not to affront it.

Eh, whatever. Guess this is me just thinking about the logic tree Shockwave might follow to get a new experiment running, and doing so in a way that doesn’t just amount to ‘mad scientist for the sake of a smart guy torturer’ or whatever lmao-

#shockwave #tfp shockwave #transformers #tfp #maccadam #if he met cylas no doubt would he get a new pet project (a human in a cybertronian shell? how odd) #you know suddenly being hit with the interest in shockwave randomly probably makes my thoughts eh limited in comparison to shockwave fans #imagining shockwave taking advantage of the gladiators in the pits to experiment with some early predacon experiments #something something this is early days so he asks for consent so he isn’t beaten to death by gladiators #yada yada he might skip over the whole ‘informed’ part of informed consent #and probably already violated voluntary participation since gladiators are in a position to want more mods or they more likely die #idk just thinking of how you can fuck with the ethics of the scientific formula without completely disregarding it #when war happened shockwave stopped asking because it’s not like folk consent to be killed so clearly experiementations can happen for free #that’s not how that works and shockwave would be well aware of that- it’s just not as important m