quoting MLK
Wow smh far right extremist /s
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r/transgendercirclejerk incoming
I had an idea for a pandemic in my world where the religious communists are the ones advocating for masks because they argue that it will make mass quarantines unnecessary. The secular conservatives argue that it would cause PTSD.
I want to have one of the "good" characters advocate on behalf of people who would be considered autistic, though they don't use that label in-world. I also want to include it as a debate even within the fictional communist party where there is the majority of the party who take a seemingly cold attitude and a minority of compassionate people who argue for better treatment of the marginalized. The conservative faction takes a hyper individualistic and in some ways hedonistic approach that people can literally do whatever they want if it doesn't harm anyone, which the religious communists react against. The communists believe that the community has a moral duty to help people who engage in behavior that is self destructive or that will ultimately make them miserable. Often people who are depressed focus on easy and pleasure filled activities that actually end up making them more depressed because they lack goals and purpose.
It's also worth noting that calloused and evil people are in the minority, usually urban communist gopniks or rural prison guards. Most religious followers believe in treating marginalized people with love and compassion.
That sounds like an interesting concept.
I'm not sure whether or not I should make religion required in the world, but even if it's technically required, atheism would still end up being tolerated in the conservative cities and progressives wouldn't feel like trying to push prosecution there. Unironic blasphemy is illegal, but the progressives also believe in free speech enough that they would only take action in very extreme cases.
Believing in any religion other then overt Satanism is considered preferable to atheism, but there are also "religions of God" that are considered more preferable. This includes most Abrahamic religions as well as others if changed, for example, a monotheistic version of Hinduism.
The idea I had for prisons and mental hospitals is for the two to be merged on paper with criminality being considered a mental health issue as the result of a poor upbringing. People no longer age and felonies have an indefinite period of commitment.
People with such a religious belief would probably reject punishments such as solitary confinement. In very extreme cases it might be necessary to keep people physically isolated, but they'd probably get social workers and possibly even volunteers to try to communicate with the inmates.
What are plaguebringers?
This is well put and would be the biggest drawback to such a system.
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PC gaming isn't that expensive right now anyway, depending on the level of performance that you want. I have a computer presumably without a dedicated graphics processor that runs Fallout 4 well. It will run Fallout 3 at consistent 60 fps at 720p.
Depending on how new the game is and whether or not you turn down the graphics, it's not that expensive to get a gaming PC.
Because it drives people even deeper into self destructive incel behaviors.