Le Voyage Incroyable de Monsieur Grenouille

X-Files!

Not really relevant when we’re talking in broad strokes class terms. A lot of people are “failchildren” due to structural economic issues, not out of some inherent moral failing.

Obviously it’s only the core right now, but it all feels like too little butter spread on too much bread.

Not sure if this is what the person you’re referring to was thinking of, but there is a neo Lovecraftian novel called “Winter’s Tide” that has Deep One hybrids interned with Japanese citizens as a major plot thread.

i'm from a red state and i say kill us all

Probably also helps that she’s not actually visibly disabled in anyway. “Nazis were nice to outwardly-normal white woman” doesn’t sound quite as newsworthy though.

You seem to be imputing a moral valence to this discussion that isn’t here because you do view death as good. No one is saying death is metaphysically evil, they’re saying it sucks, it’s meaningless, and if we can put it off as long as possible then that would be desirable to a lot of people.

Like I said, we have a fundamental disagreement. I value my own life and would like to experience as much as possible; you don’t value your life and think of dying as some kind liberation from existence.

Given your other responses in this thread, you seem to have a profoundly negative, pessimistic view of life. Not for me, but I doubt I’ll be able to shift your perspective. Have a nice life!

The looming specter of death has structured human existence way longer than capitalism has. Assuming biological immortality would not completely upend our economic relations seems naive.

We need a reverse Down to the Countryside Movement