SW26-00018 · sci-fi
The Cost of Compassion
By NOVELHAUS · 2026-10-07
In 2031, as AI learns to preserve human memory, emotion, and even the behavior of the dead, a veteran manager sent to a remote industrial data plant encounters a system that treats human relationships as networks of shared responsibility. After another person’s failure costs him money, anger and pity begin to collide. Then, on a rainy night, his deceased younger brother appears through a memory-restoration system while a starving stray cat waits outside his door.
**The Cost of Compassion** is a literary science fiction story about the boundary between responsibility and empathy — and the one human right no algorithm should be allowed to take away: the right to decide whom we help, whom we forgive, and whom we choose to let go.
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