Thinkaboutit...

Man Has Made His Match - I agree.
I wouldn't think that Roy spares Deckard,
because he experiences himself as having
a moment of a higher emotional level of enlightenment.
It rather seems to me that Roy is acting on a
"there is something greater than me" type of emotion.
And we don't even know, whether Roy is capable of feeling or not.
Yet, he is realising something in the end.
 
I always took it that in his moment of death, Roy had an appreciation of life that extended beyond his programming as a combat squad leader.

Hence the four year life span of Replicants.
 
I think the genius of that scene is it's pretty ambiguous what's going on. Does Roy realise in the end that all Life is precious, including the life of the man who's been trying to kill him, not just his own? Has he become empathic ('more human than human'), conscious of Deckard's own right to life? Does he think Deckard is human or does he recognise him as a fellow replicant with his own four-year life span? There's so many ways of reading that scene and none of them can be said to be fully definitive because so much depends upon what the viewer brings to it themselves.
 
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