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There’s even a few maverick physicists who conduct illicit studies in rogue states, throwing handfuls of scissors into the air and trying to reproduce sentience, malevolence, and the swarm in them. This does not succeed and it is generally put down hard.

As for religion, of course, it does little better. Theodicy was hard enough already with just the natural disasters and the turtle-people; it shudders under the introduction of the scissors-swarms.

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