Not anyone here, per say, but the more this is discussed, the more I wonder why the cognitive average funneled towards outrage and incredulity.
Or perhaps more exactly, why believability suddenly dropped out and was replaced by outrage and incredulity? For example, some people have suggested that in the Matrix the machines could have just used cows. But no one found it unbelievable that the machines used humans, or if they did they figured ways it could make sense.
It seems unlikely (unbelievable), but if instead the dunyain went by consensual sex, I wonder how unbelievable the whale mothers would be then? I suspect they would be less unbelievable for folk.