chapter 7

I thought this chapter was pretty interesting. It gave a good example of how empathetic John Isidore is to all seemingly living things. I really liked how john is completely blind to androids and electric animals, and really enforces my idea on how androids might as well be considered human, even with themselves not being able to distinguish from their social group of androids and our group of humans. John Isidore is considered a special, so he is looked down upon in his society, so it is interesting to me to see a character that seems to go through much hate turn out to be such a sensitive and caring person.
The chapter started out with John rushing to pick up this sick cat, explaining how john was a "veterinarian" for electric animals. As john was in route to pick up this cat he was tuning into Buster Friendly talk show, who at the time had a foreign guest who appears regularly on the 23 hour broad casted show. Once the cat was tucked away in his hover car, john bean to cringe at the noise the suffering cat was emitting. John was under the assumption that the cat was an electric animal, a Wheelright & Carpenter model. And that when John searched for a way to cease the saddening cry of the cat, he could not find the switch and found it had "ceased functioning."
As I was reading I was wondering why anyone would program a cat to be diseased, just to imitate how a real cat would function in the natural world. But if an animal that is created or berthed in a lab or factory that carries in its mechanized mind or in its counter parts encoded DNA, a disease that it will be destined to contract, wouldn't at that point it be assumed that we have just taken up the reigns that mother nature once held and just simply started playing god.