The Good Place is an amazing show.
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enemyofperfectAnd I keep wanting to make a proper post about it, but since that keeps not happening, I give you instead an exchange my mother and I had today while we were trading weird stories our brains tell us while we're asleep.
enemyofperfect: So then the giant skeleton king screamed and kind of fell on top of us--
Ma: That does sound like a creepy dream.
enemyofperfect: Oh, no -- this isn't the dream that upset me. The one that upset me was about the ethics of dealing with bandits in a post-apocalyptic society.
Ma: ...?
enemyofperfect: I mean, a blogger I respect said that we had to have a zero tolerance policy for bandits, because if they had any chance of reintegrating with society, people would be way more likely to give it a try. But I felt really uncomfortable with that idea! Like, if bandits have no options except banditry until they die, of course they're going to keep killing and stealing. And what if someone is actually born into banditry -- what do we do then? What option is there that lets us take a hard stance with bandit parents without forever traumatizing their kids? Or do we kill the kids too? There's no good solution here!
Ma: You know, some people just dream about having to give a presentation in their underwear.
enemyofperfect: ...I just realized something.
Ma: Is it that your name is Chidi?
enemyofperfect: I AM CHIDI ANAGONYE.
I'm trying not to be too ridiculously pleased with this realization, but let's be real -- how much better than an indecisive cinnamon roll of a dead ethics professor could I possibly do?
enemyofperfect: So then the giant skeleton king screamed and kind of fell on top of us--Ma: That does sound like a creepy dream.
enemyofperfect: Oh, no -- this isn't the dream that upset me. The one that upset me was about the ethics of dealing with bandits in a post-apocalyptic society.Ma: ...?
enemyofperfect: I mean, a blogger I respect said that we had to have a zero tolerance policy for bandits, because if they had any chance of reintegrating with society, people would be way more likely to give it a try. But I felt really uncomfortable with that idea! Like, if bandits have no options except banditry until they die, of course they're going to keep killing and stealing. And what if someone is actually born into banditry -- what do we do then? What option is there that lets us take a hard stance with bandit parents without forever traumatizing their kids? Or do we kill the kids too? There's no good solution here!Ma: You know, some people just dream about having to give a presentation in their underwear.
enemyofperfect: ...I just realized something.Ma: Is it that your name is Chidi?
enemyofperfect: I AM CHIDI ANAGONYE.I'm trying not to be too ridiculously pleased with this realization, but let's be real -- how much better than an indecisive cinnamon roll of a dead ethics professor could I possibly do?
