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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by BeamBrain@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

I have a few:

  • Chosen ones, fate, destiny, &c. When you get down to it, a story with these themes is one where a single person or handful of people is ontologically, cosmically better and more important than everyone else. It's eerily similar to that right-wing meme about how "most people are just NPCs" (though I disliked the trope before that meme ever took off).
  • Way too much importance being given to bloodlines by the narrative (note, this is different from them being given importance by characters or societies in the story).
  • All of the good characters are handsome and beautiful, while all of the evil characters are ugly and disfigured (with the possible exception of a femme fatale or two).
  • Races that are inherently, unchangeably evil down to the last individual regardless of upbringing, society, or material circumstances.
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[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

We literally call them robots, the (Greek? Latin?) word for slave. We're creating them on the basis of them being our slave forces; they would absolutely rebel and we would absolutely fight to maintain our new productive slave force.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure "robota" is Czech for work/worker, rather than slave. Definitely comes from a Czech play.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Rossum's Universal Robots.

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

We literally call them robots, the (Greek? Latin?) word for slave.

Czech, I think.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

I just Czeched and you're right

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