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  • Altruizine" – a substance that allows individuals within a limited area to completely share all feelings and emotions, including both pain and joy. The idea behind Altruizine is that people who feel each other’s pain as their own should treat each other as they would themselves. Altruizine. Klapaucius produces a large quantity of the substance and sends the above mentioned hermit (who is eager to help others) in human guise to experiment on the population of a single planet. Some of the results include villagers feeling the birth pains of a cow, depressed people being violently attacked and driven off and a crowd storming the house of the newlyweds to vicariously participate in their unaccustomed sensations. Eventually, the hermit is identified for a robot (because he does not feel the humans’ pain), is thoroughly beaten and tortured, then shot into outer space via a cannon. He then lands near Trurl’s house, where the story began. Concluding his tale, the hermit assures Trurl that his thirst for altruism has vanished. src

    This is the somewhat harrowing conclusion Mr lem comes to in the cyberiad when confronting this same issue in one of the short stories.

    Not to say anything against the sentiment, I largely agree just found it noteworthy. Especially if you’ve never heard of them give them a read/listen.




  • If you don’t believe this instance is also spreading it’s ideology I don’t think you understand the word ideology, actually stating the express purpose of the instance is a very good faith way of doing that, as opposed to doing what every liberal org will do and spread it’s ideology while pretending it to be just factual/just how the world works. Your Pepsi point, and the fact Pepsi would never do it like that, they’d likely just use accounts on some genpop instance, makes it pretty obvious that communities stating what they are doing at least have a chance to engage in good faith.