wow... I was about to sit down an write an answer and you just give a perfect one. thats so true, thats exactly the reason and why that happenes
and unfortunatelly is quite common, to hate the ones that do something, because its easy to be inocent if you dont do anything
so it usually happenes that the ones who are doing something are blamed like they are the cause of the problem
Zorro Re
2021-03-01 02:56:18 +0000 UTC
I blame religion.
Sniffeh
2021-02-25 16:43:46 +0000 UTC
That's kinda how people are in real life. They spit on policemen and soldiers. They value public teachers and nurses less than private ones. They treat sex workers as less than human. They consider sex outside marriage a sign of an evil and monstrous person. Any non-standard is seen as a "perversion".
Meanwhile, male sexual prowess is seen as admirable and desirable.
So it seems natural to me that some people would talk about the virus victims with sympathy and a little fantasizing envy at such magical, superhuman sexual prowess. Of course, they need healing... but wouldn't it be NICE to experience that? Of course, only for a little while, before getting treated...
And people would speak of MORU agents with disgust and contempt at such "slutty" ways. And people whose children were going hungry would enviously call the agents undeserving of resources.
Any children who expressed admiration for agents would be "corrected" by parents who didn't want the children to emulate them in any way.
So I can believe that teens who'd heard adults' talk that way could well believe that the virus imparts magic sex abilities that the agents are unjustly keeping from them...
Dewi
2021-02-25 15:55:53 +0000 UTC
I don't really get it. Without them, the last person in the city would've been turned long ago. Yet they are shunned, even hated.