I don ' t think that any of Clinton ' s people despised Sanders the same way that Sanders ' supporters despised Hillary . Agreed . I certainly don ' t despise Sanders though some of his supporters can often be very difficult to talk to . But I wasn ' t going to have my primary vote held hostage by Bernie voters . If he had won the primary I would ' ve given him all my support . <| sep |> I don ' t think that ' s what was happening . They didn ' t need Shaun for a continuous source of prewar DNA after they figured out what they needed to figure out . If that were the case the synth programme would end at some future point . What they needed Shaun for was presumably so that they could figure out how a normal , nonmutated human genome functioned and what it looked like . Because there ' s either a terminal or a holotape somewhere that basically says we tried using our own DNA but the synths we made from it were broken . What it seems like to me is that they were trying to create designer genomes . Maybe genomes that are optimised , maybe they thought they could make them smarter etc . But it wasn ' t working so they needed Shaun . Not for a continuous source of DNA past the initial research phase anyway , but because he was pristine . It ' s like . look at McDonough . The Institute has a terminal entry where it basically says it ' s impossible for him to become a Courser because they designed him to be fat and lazy . Father is the synths ' father sort of literally but more symbolically .