Better question: is it better for them to remain unaware, or to be told by the ones they harmed? All over the ship, that's the decision people are actually having to make: what, if anything do you tell someone about what their body did?

I can answer the question of 'would I rather know' from experience. I went back to find out.

[Max's last text hits something deep. Murderbot...well, as it just said, it has experience. It knows what it's like. But Max surely isn't talking to it because of that. Right?]

They'll band together. Small groups and large. Drink about it. Cry about it. Humans have mechanisms for processing emotions like this. For making it through trauma.

[They. The organics. Not Max and Murderbot. They're on the outside of this thing.]