• bigmonkey [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    Fuck, fuck... To be saved by your own child's donated organ at the cost of their life. I can't imagine the toll that would take her mind.

      • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        That'd be such a bullshit monkey paw. There's nothing perverse about wishing for your health. There's no moral where you go "oh man, I guess I shouldn't have cared about my health." It's just pure "well fuck you, monkey"

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          11 months ago

          In the original story, the protagonist wishes for $200k. Moments later, he gets a knock at the door from the life insurance company that insured his father for $200k.

          This follows a similar arc.

      • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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        11 months ago

        I want to explicitly clarify that I do not support adventurism or fedposting type actions.....

        BUT....

        If even some stochasticic terror stopped targeting schools and minorities and began taking out Saw mill or Healthcare execs? That would be an objective improvement.

  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    comrade-stoic Oh my God. The sheer level of cruelty of this world.

    Clearly he didn't immediately die on the factory floor but instead reached a level of coma where he was then pronounced brain-dead. Can't exactly donate the super critical stuff without that.

    To live every day knowing a part of your child is what's keeping you alive has to be a hell of a feeling.

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          But also, someone should also write a fiction book that says that the ideas in these volumes are bad, and no one has to read that one either, but gets to use it as an automatic justification as to why we should never even think about the ideas the first guy wrote about.

          • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Funny you should say that, my friend is working on just such a book. It should go well since he seems quite trustworthy, so much so that I've disclosed my politics and sexual orientation to him.

            • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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              11 months ago

              Oh well that's good. I'm sure he doesn't have some kind of list of people he thinks are deviants that he's planning to send to the authorities or anything like that.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    In evil country, child laborers are worked to death and then their organs harvested for elder citizens of the country

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Focus on the positives, because if you looked at it as a whole- the rage would be infinite

  • richietozier4 [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    WHOLESOME ALERT! Child sells kidney to pay for mother’s cancer treatment after her insurance ruled her mutated DNA was a pre existing condition

    • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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      11 months ago

      The funniest one of these "positive news" stories I've ever seen was when a local news channel spotlighted a farm that was taking retired racehorses to "save them from the slaughterhouse." Which is all well and good but imagine seeing that as someone who didn't already know they were being killed.

      I say funniest because at least they weren't talking about people.

  • regul [any]
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    11 months ago

    Real "Dick Cheney has an Iraq War veteran's heart" energy.

  • RION [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    Extrapolated onto the current world population, we could extinguish life on earth to save 56 billion lives! Get slaughtering people