I'm glad you think so.

> If there'll be more, my vote goes to the children's game idea. Maybe on a playground, using its equipment and watched by parents, who are totally fine with their children disassembling each other in their play, but occasionally throw in a line or two about how they shouldn't be mean to each other and maybe other children present, maybe also talking with other parents about their children through which we learn that it is common for children to disassemble themselves and each other in all kinds of games.

Oh, there'll be more; I'm very far from having tapped it out. So long as this place doesn't suffer spontaneous existence failure once again. As to your specific scenario, though...

It's nothing quite that straight-forward. The world has a backstory, although there's only one other story there (Mentioned up in >>1912, though that story was set a generation or more earlier). Still, parental attitudes are mixed. Certainly, a lot of them have grown up doing similar things, and certainly being upset that their children experiment would be hypocritical, but when has that ever stopped anyone? Eva's less concerned attitude is as much a result of her twins having gone through every possible and impossible permutation of "torn apart" over the last couple of years, many of them where she could see, and she's mostly given up on stopping them.

Other parents? Not so much. Most kids will have experimented with cutting themselves open, or a sibling; most children's games occasionally lead to ruined eyes, broken bones or deep bruises (that fail to appear, or feel, like bruises), and perhaps one or two children in any given middle-school class will have at some point died and been reloaded, but the violence of Alex and Alyssa's relationship is unusual, especially the nonconsensual aspect. (Though terming it "nonconsensual" is bending the term a little. There are rules, and any one of them could have invoked their parents if they felt the other was exceeding them.)

Letting a little bit of pain through has largely stopped the sort of squicky scenarios that the people who made that decision were trying to avoid. They could have taken the *pain* out of the pain, or made people far harder to get hurt, but they were desperately trying to make sure they'd still have a society of humans at the end of it—even if, technically speaking, neither Alyssa nor Alex have a single human gene in them. At some point you'll probably learn more about that, even if I suspect this isn't the right forum for hard SF. Oh well, it's a living. :P

For what it's worth? Their mother would *not* still be alive if she'd gone through anything close to what Alyssa has, and she can't be restored from backup. This means she will, inevitably, eventually die—and they've deliberately proscribed the sort of research that would let them fix that. There are good reasons for that, but... well.

So far the count is:
- Alyssa: Three deaths.
- Alex: Five.