And if they refuse to vote someone gets killed at random (and anyone who tries to leave gets killed automatically), and they don't know how long the game will go until it ends So the first thing this one college kid proposes is killing all the oldest people first
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It makes ethical sense, to most of us - whoever has the fewest years left to live has the least to lose Everyone goes along with it when they kill off a man in his 90s (who's barely aware of what's happening), followed by a woman in her 80s
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But then in the next round all the candidates are people roughly the same age in their late 60s and early 70s And they start arguing over who actually is the oldest and who actually is most likely to die One of them points out the presence of a cancer survivor in her 40s
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And people start saying it's monstrous to kill off someone who beat cancer once just because it might come back in the future But then why isn't it monstrous to kill people just for the crime of "naturally" getting old
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Why is it "fair" to rob some people of their remaining lifespan because they've "already had more years" if those years sucked and were racked with poverty and suffering, while there are smug young rich people here who've lived lives of only privilege
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The college kid who proposed this rule says for the time being they should stick with it because they have nothing better And suggests if they can't decide *which* old person should die to pick one at random At which point the old people turn on him and vote him dead as a bloc
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Anyway, it's by design not a very subtle movie But the people casually suggesting that old people should die off because they don't matter might find themselves in a situation like this soon
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As a strange happenstance, I was on set when they were shooting some of that. What's your take on it?
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I'm a sucker for any movie where they take a dorm room thought experiment and actually film it
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