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7. The Daleks

The Daleks are bad parenting taken to a horrifying extreme. Davros’ refers to them as his children and they in turn acknowledge him as the father/creator. This is the result of the emotional abandonment, physical abuse and neglect inherent to the lives of children impacted by war. Davros raised an entire race of sociopaths. He brought them to the table then fed them nothing but hate and now that is all they can taste, hear and see. He allows them no escape as even death is removed from their grasp. They are born imprisoned and doomed to rot for eternity.

When a Dalek is no longer useful it is literally flushed down the toilet. Their sewers aren’t graveyards for those are repositories for the dead. These are tunnels built out of sentient beings, prisons of living flesh. This is a torture chamber. The Dalek’s lack of compassion for those who outlive their usefulness is destined to come back to haunt them. They are trapped in a circle of destruction, a snake eating its own tail.