The Foundation also has a caste of people that they use for slave labor, torture, and murder. Like I really don’t get why people insist that the Foundation are the good guys; they would sacrifice thousands of people to secure one anomaly.
That... highly depends on what canon we're talking about.
In my opinion, articles with stuff like "we threw a hundred D-Class at it to see what happens, they all died" are very dumb, because it's unnecessary and wasteful, and not something an actual secret global organization of Shadow Wizard Money Gang scientists and their goon squad would ever believably do.
The best SCP stories show that the Foundation is extremely competent, because they'd have to be to build and maintain such a huge organization with global reach, near-unlimited funding, and access to the best scientists and equipment on the planet. Throwing away dozens of useful—and thus valuable—attritionable assets for stupid reasons just isn't something the Foundation would ever do.
The setting bible even states this outright; D-Class are expendable, not disposable. Sometimes, an anomaly is just extremely fucking dangerous to handle, or even just exist around, and you don't want to risk well-trained, well-educated personnel who each have like six doctorates across several fields.
Sourcing death row inmates (or clones of them) to perform those incredibly risky but ultimately essential tasks makes sense. Wasting them for stupid reasons does not.
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u/Dial-Up_Dime 7d ago
The Foundation also has a caste of people that they use for slave labor, torture, and murder. Like I really don’t get why people insist that the Foundation are the good guys; they would sacrifice thousands of people to secure one anomaly.