If only he had thought to get a girl, and go on the run, Logan style.
A lot in here about how much people are prepared to accepted, and social norms, and how once something has been accepted on a large enough scale, a tipping point is reached, and as a culture, become unable to hear anything that conflicts with that. (I know there's a psychological term, but the word escapes me) Too much water under the bridge, if it is all for the new world, if they are a slave factory (which btw, great way to run one :p) accepting that, and doing something about it, means accepting the sham of ones own life, and deaths once seen as necessary for the greater good become meaningless. I like how he was able to do the right thing for himself, having faced that, and found he was unable to live with what he knew, yet unable to walk away, he faced the only fate left.
That might've been the whole problem, no girl to run away with! Surely, had he had one, she would've talked him out of this. :P
I was going for that, yeah, the gullibility of the masses. How naive we all are.
I believe I know what term you are referring to, but can also not remember it.
Yeah, the story is a twist on morals and beliefs, and how easy it is to be convinced you're doing the right thing, doing something good for others, when in reality you're not.
All we can ever do is act in accordance with ourselves. If we cannot live with who we are and what we are, might as well... not live.
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