Aftertalk 578: Calorically Rich Threes
Added 2025-12-10 03:10:04 +0000 UTCNo FULL Experience this week.
Threes are a thing in the human mind. Also, photographer hack.
Schedules, shmedules.
Spoilerin' Time:
14:00 - Plur1bus
Comments
Manousos' uncompromising ethical outlook seems admirable, yet the hive mind's 'not going to be harvesting food' principle seems deliberately infuriating and yet both have avoidable fatal results. Manounos could have accepted help from the hive mind but keeps to his principles and would have died in the jungle without the hive mind. The joined will hold to their own principles until they starve to death, just like Manousos but without the safety net of someone else coming in to save them within the next decade. It's as if Manounos' principles is done above a safety net and has a luxury of existing without the worst outcomes which makes it easier for me to find admirable than the joined that is uncompromising with their principles and willing to drive all of humanity off the cliff to maintain their principles which is not at all appealing. Pick a damn apple hive mind!
Sean The Dad
2025-12-12 18:43:26 +0000 UTCRegarding Plubrius and the morality of the hive mind, it's uncompromising standard of respect for all life is not just frustrating (like James Gunn's super hero ethics that respects all living animals) but self-destructive. If the human species effectively goes extinct then the morality is incompatible with human beings and therefore is evil in respect of humanity. If the biological imperative is to take over all of humanity and then starve the species that's the unavoidable result of maintaining their moral standards without exceptions. If David Cornsweet's Superman felt it necessary to protect all plant life just like he did squirrels and civilian populations Superman would have starved to death in Smallville even before getting to Metropolis no matter what the food source was on Krypton to continue to live an alien species must adapt to planet's environment and not be uncompromising with how they existed before where found food was enough to sustain whatever species sent the signal to earth. I suspect that the signal is intended to depopulate the planet for the arrival of the actual aliens that would need extra million years to get to earth.
Sean The Dad
2025-12-11 15:12:59 +0000 UTC
