Inventor Trial -

(leaning forward) Then why did everyone want it? Why did governments buy licenses? Why did parents install it in their children so they could study more? I didn’t invent ambition. I didn’t invent greed. I invented a tool. The trial isn’t mine — it’s yours. Every one of you chose to use my gift until it became a curse.

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(calm, tired — not from lack of sleep, but from lack of being understood) I gave them time. What they did with it was their choice. No one forced them to work longer. No one made them scroll endlessly. I opened a door. They ran through it and called it progress. (leaning forward) Then why did everyone want it

You engineered a society that never resets. A mind without rest is a mind without mercy. You knew the studies — sleep isn’t lost time. It’s the foundation of empathy, memory, and restraint. You removed the brake and called it an engine. I didn’t invent ambition

Mr. Vane, your defense rests on human free will. But the court finds that will was compromised the moment you made wakefulness infinite. In a world where your neighbor never sleeps, the one who sleeps loses. You created a prisoner’s dilemma with no escape. For that, we find you… not guilty of malice, but guilty of magnificent arrogance. Your sentence: you will sleep for one year, unplugged from every screen, every obligation. And when you wake, you will write one word a day — dream — until you remember what you took from us.