I have a metaphysics question. I just listened to ep6 of the Bloodletters AP (still Six Towers Gang back then), to tell you where this question’s coming from. The Dunville Masquerade.
So you’re a Whisper, and you buy the whole Church of Ecstasy of the Flesh party line. Spirits aren’t really people, they’re just echoes of what a person was, and it’s totally okay to rip them out of a dead body, mix them up with Leviathan blood and use them to power the grid. Because spirit=bad, electricity=good.
But, how do you reconcile that with Hollows? As a Whisper you know the spirit can be taken out before the guy’s even dead, his body will survive, but he’ll be in this weird half-living totally docile state.
Where do you draw the line between person and not-person?