Roy then equates fear to slavery, subjection and servitude to inferiority. He is still not quite settled with his inferior position. (Is he like Milton's Satan -- a being created with such majesty that he cannot reconcile submitting to a God?). But Roy has compassion after all: he saves Decker from falling, using his hand which has a nail in it (a Christian image of the crucified Savior?). This could be, as Roy goes on to reflect and tell Decker of the things he has "seen" before bowing his head and submitting to death. A dove (or is it a pigeon?) flies upward (a symbol of his soul leaving his body? -- Scott may be suggesting that these androids do have souls, given them by God, even if their bodies and memories are given them by Tyrell).

Roy does not go so far as to assert, like Descartes, that God...
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