But all jokes aside you're ignoring the greater point. Treating people as if they're valuable based on their replaceability causes horrific inequalities based on now their replaceability influences their social status. All the discussions about how this is just how society works doesn't make the reality any less horrific and cruel and undesirable.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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