• Aloomineum@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I have IBS-D there are over 300 foods I cannot eat or else my intestines get shredded and bleed out immense amounts of blood. I lost over 60 lbs of weight and currently weigh 130lbs as a 5.11 male. Doctors have tried everything and after 3 years they say i will just have to live with this.

    Some of the only food I can eat without issue is meat. I wish it wasnt this way, I’d love to become atleast vegetarian, but if I did I would die.

    Should I be put to jail or forced to do community service in your hypothetical?

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      1 year ago

      Ooh, you’re like dracula! Dracula is a vampire, and he has to drink the blood of innocents to sustain his immortal body or he’ll die. So his life centers around violating other people in a bloody and vaguely sexual cycle of violence. This is a classic Morbius sitution. It’s a trolley problem, except that you’re the only person on the first track, and you can pull the lever to switch the trolley onto a track with dozens of innocents.

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        1 year ago

        So you are calling me a monster because of a medical condition that I cannot help? Excuse my literal autism diagnosis, just trying to understand what your saying.

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          Well most monsters can’t help being monsters either. “I’m a vampire and I don’t want to be” is a VERY established trope that really saw a surge in popularity in the 90s. That trope is also at the very core of the werewolf myth, and it’s present in zombie stories too. You know, the survivor who hides their zombie bite and gets everyone else killed through their hubris. They didn’t choose to be bitten by a zombie, but they did choose to harm others through their actions. Like you! You’re a monster movie trope.