Families should be destroyed. All of them. I don't fucking care. Wipe it all out. If humanity can't survive that, then wipe that the fuck out too.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
There's this classic science fiction story where an alien species puts humanity through a test where there's a big red button and a randomly selected human gets to decide whether or not to push the button and kill all humans (including themselves) instantly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
That's it, that's the whole test There's no upside - push the button, everyone dies, don't push it, everything stays the same The point being that - given that the person is chosen completely randomly, anyone alive on Earth - if this test makes you nervous, what does that say
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
There's the committedly spiteful philosophical sourpusses who might be tempted because of their fancy pants understanding of the world Then there's all the people who don't know about all that, but only know their own suffering
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And since the aliens tell you clearly this is the only magic button you get and that you'll ever get - no reward for leaving the button alone but EVERYTHING STAYING THE SAME How many people might end their suffering this way if it's the only way they'll ever get
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
It might seem awful that anyone should ever have the power to "veto" the whole human race just because they're personally unhappy But, well If nobody should ever have that power, and ever does have that power... that's how you get Omelas
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The point of Omelas is that freeing the Child would "veto" Omelas as a society, and no one who actually lives there -- because it's so much more pleasurable and fulfilling than the world we live in -- can imagine doing so except the Child themselves, who is not given that power
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Actually the point of omelas is that people can't imagine a fulfilling world, the child exists because of your metafictional desire for it to suffer.
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