[ SECRET POST #4917 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4917 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The allegory is that people in the real world ignore suffering that has convenient results every day, and the story makes people think about when and how they do it themselves and question if there’s things they’d be willing to give up to end the suffering of others. It’s not deep or complicated, but it is uncomfortable. Especially because in the real world it’s not one kid suffers extreme deprivation=happiness for everyone. There’s way more suffering kids and adults that no one individual (okay maybe Bezos) could rescue no matter how much comfort they eschewed.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

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SA

My issue is the lack of depth. This works as a surface reading. But think about the story for even a second and it falls apart. It simply doesn't make sense. Okay, if your happy with a story intend to not be deep, that's fine. But personally I don't like shallow reading. I don't like things that fall apart when you think about them. I like things that make sense. I think a better allegory would be one that used the same idea, but was deeper and more complex and made more sense.

I guess to me this story only works when you don't think about it at all, and to me that's bad writing.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean it is a SHORT story, and I'm starting to think you're not entirely familiar with how vague allegories generally are.