cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24230552
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One step closer to a Brave New World
My brother in christ, this is not OG sleeping beauty, wtf. How did they expect that conversation to go down?
"Yes, I know your daughter is brain dead, but good news, she will be able to breed for the nation! What? You don't like the idea of state sanctioned rape and forced breeding?" It baffles me that some people really just see women as a vessal. No thoughts on how horrific that would be for any woman going into the hospital (if something goes wrong, I don't even get a respectful death), and for their families should one of the worse case scenarios occur ("You can bury her after we've popped out a few wave slaves"). Not even thoughts on the children that would be produced by such horrors.
Literally anything than make the world a better place for people to raise children in.
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Oh hey capitalism wants to create the Daemonculaba.
The Bene Tleilaxu approve this plan.
Damn it is can never come up with an original quip.
Those tanks were based on amphibian genetic engineering. You're just repeating Missionaria Protectiva superstition.
I've been watching too many medical dramas and think that this would make a neat episode if done correctly. Like if a woman had agreed to be a surrogate for her gay brother and made it explicitly clear that she wanted it to occur even if she was in an accident and brain dead. There's a lot of moral issues and it would be interesting to see them play out in a fantasy universe.
I can't imagine a situation where this would be OK in real life, to be clear.
This was an episode of Grey's Anatomy. A pregnant woman is in a car crash and is brain dead, and her parents want to keep her on life support until the baby is born. I think in the end, they decided to let them both go.
Oh neat, ironically Grey's is what I've been binging - I must not be to that episode yet. I do think there's a difference, though, between keeping a pregnant woman's body alive to allow her baby to be born vs. impregnating a brain dead woman.
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Oh, Brave New World!
Literally the plot of Shinsekai Yori (don't watch Shinsekai Yori, it will fuck you up)
To be fair to them, when the rat queen was fully conscious, she freely killed / maimed / raped her own kind.
I don't want to excuse Squealer's actions, any more than I would Hitler's, but I will say that he rightfully upset a horrific "natural order"
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Nice try Hideo Kojima. You won't be making the death stranding reality!
The amount of babies isn't the issue America, it's the fact that we can't afford them.
And that the government won't do shit-all to help them. A baby born to a corpse is not going to have a good life in America.
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Okay, but imagine if you could have one really rich guy impregnate a thousand captive comatose women at once, to improve efficiency.
From a Lomgtermist perspective, this would be great for the future of our Brave New World
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I know forced sterilization is bad, but people that come up with opinions this psychotic...should not be allowed to procreate.
Nominate them for the Darwin Award
The problem aren't babies, its funding those babies. Raising children is fucking expensive, and in the age of infinite growth nobody is allowed to slowdown to raise children. Adoption centers and foster homes are abysmal, and having kids is too expensive for most people.
The rich dont want to pay for peoples kids, they just want to squeeze the value out them. Thats why Elon and his vice president trump wants more H-1B visas. They don't have to pay for the childcare or education, they can just drain educated workers from another struggling country
The best way to get people to not care that you're raping (or otherwise abusing / exploiting) their children is to make sure they have too many to keep track of.
This is seriously fucked up, but I don't get the capitalism part of it?
They are proposing a human body factory for producing wage slaves.
they are proposing a human body factory for producing humans. you're the one calling them wage slaves. it's some gruesome Frankenstein shit but has nothing to do with C word
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They aren't keeping brain dead women as incubators for free.
How many viable children could a vegetable human create before the body just turns into meat slag? (Serious question)
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Name and shave the "academic"
The original "academic" is a philosophy professor, so unless you want to act like The Thought Police, then you shouldn't have any reason to be angry over this thought being thought.
Her actual paper also warns against the idea. The whole story was blown out of proportion by the media.
If you still want to shave her, you should probably ask for her consent.
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