Yes, definitely.

Also we can and should get these people some therapists.

We can?

Well, not immediately, but therapy is a thing that exists and can be imported? I'm not saying we can talk literally everyone who needs it into seeing one but, like, I bet it's a lot more than no one.

I'm not sure what that'd do for the mes but we can certainly try.

...Yeah, I really was thinking about them for Aegnor-scale problems, not Maedhros-scale problems.

Immaturity is probably very responsive to therapy! 

Presumably!

Don't worry about the mes.

...I don't think worry really describes any of the emotions I've felt about. That whole thing.

I'm glad. 

Rage, yes, sadness, yes, but worry implies--I mean, I think it's pretty stable? I don't think there's much to worry about, I haven't gotten the impression that it's likely to get worse and "worried he won't get better" is only really a meaningful way to feel when getting better is the default expected outcome...

That seems reasonable enough. I - there are hundreds of millions of them, perhaps we'll stumble on a good general solution.

Probably at least some of them are more like you than like them.

All chipped ones'll be fine, we'll just roll them back, but apparently that's a minority.

One to thirteen, yeah. I bet we can find some from before it happened, though.

I wonder if I could fork a non-chipped Elf, eventually.

I mean, even the Valar can just erase all the memories from that point forward. 

That feels qualitatively different for possibly arbitrary reasons.

I can't think of a difference but we're used to thinking of minds as very mechanical, I have no idea how having a soul is supposed to work.

Mm, I dunno--I could imagine it as being, like--if I forget it's still me, but if I get to stop existing and get forked then I still get to stop existing?

Maybe. Have you asked him?

No, this is all low-confidence hypothesizing in the absence of fact.

Fair enough. I can't really imagine, so I can't guess any better than you.

I'm not sure being able to comprehend it wouldn't be damaging in its own way.

I invited him to convince me that life is not worth living, and I was not convinced.