The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[emugod]

Can you take the badge? How do you know?

Well it's just a guess, but you can see the icon change after he exits the examination view, just as he puts the center-dot over the badge, to an open-hand 'grab'. Applying videogame/adventure-game logic I'd bet the point of taking it would be to show the Carl Semken Mockingbird, as support for trying to challenge his delusion. Probably as part of an optional split off the main alternate path of disabling his switch rather than the 'flow control'. By convincing him he kills himself, or he manages to help you figure out some way to spare him, or he becomes hostile, etc. some change that then enables (or at least excuses, makes less ethically monstrous) turning off his switch rather than the flow control one.