No, the horror of creating a utopia by just straight up murdering all the people infected with "toxic" behaviors is still horrifying no matter what
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @Nymphomachy
The initial plague in HHDYR was an accident, the outcome where they decide to protect their society the only option is to euthanize the three men is the frightening tragedy
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @Nymphomachy
It's more the story's heavyhanded framing that rehabilitation is impossible (even though, in-universe, they've been through an enormous trauma that really should be the main thing their actions are judged by) and imprisonment too dangerous to risk
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And the similarly heavyhanded moment of truth where the narrator siding with his captain in a moment of crisis (again, despite the aforementioned overwhelming trauma) is proof the sickness is in his blood
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @Nymphomachy
Well yeah because he's losing his shit because he's woken up in a world where everything is telling him he shouldn't exist
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The story's themes are a response to Russ but it's definitely a spiritual sequel to "The Man Who Walked Home", which doesn't have anything directly about gender but is about that overwhelming Lovecraftian horror of "You shouldn't exist"
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