With respect, Mr. Aloga, I don’t think it’s the tech that’s to blame. Cybernetics aren’t a new thing, certainly not in the Empire (though admittedly cloning kind of is). If they consistently eroded the soul/damaged the person, surely that would be understood by now? I could even see the Amarr banning them for that reason if it were so; they care a lot about the spiritual realm, even if it’s mostly their own. Going before their god maimed isn’t something I think most would be okay with.
My predecessor agreed with you, believed that repeated cloning eroded us. To me it looks like we’re contending with a much older spiritual enemy: power-- power, and a casual comfort with taking life I think might usually be rooted at first, in our case, in how little the cans of people we’re paid to shoot at look like people.
People tend not to pay much mind to those whose opinions can’t hurt them, so power has a tendency to corrode empathy for those who don’t have it. Combine that with a sometimes-even-cheerful relationship with death, and … well, look at the behavior of various warrior elites down history’s course, playing games of strategy among themselves with actual armies, vying for power and prestige with living, breathing humans as their pawns.
I’m not sure we’re very different from such folk. To me it seems like we’re callous, arrogant, and cruel in all the same ways.
Just another elite class of killers.