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Arne BrasseurWell yes, soylent green _is_ people, but you can't just apply existing homicide laws to a business like ours. The entire humans-as-nutritional-sludge industry would be out of business.
Morten Juhl-Johansen@plexus If we don't get into the human harvesting game, we'll be behind the competition. Good or bad business, that will be even worse, right?
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Sosha Rahab@plexus it's not homicide if they die of natural causes like, say, lack of oxygen. now, did we suck all the oxygen out of those cells, er, rooms? your honor, that is beside the point.
Daniel Bohrer@peachfiend @plexus Your Honor, we have no obligation to let fresh air into rooms that people decide to step into on their own decision. They simply should've read the warning signs that were clearly posted in 12pt font at the rear end of the rooms, also warning them of the one-way door without a handle on the inside. In full respect, your honor, they should've been paying us for cleaning up after them!
IFcoltransG in drops of ichor@daniel_bohrer @peachfiend This almost sounds like the plot of Gasping, Ben Elton's 1990 play.
aburka 🫣@plexus we're here to build, stop the negativity
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@plexus (as amusing as this is: in the movie and book, soylent green was not people. that would be the new product, soylent brown.)
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gürkan �’ :catlong_head_left::catlong_h::catlong_end_right:@plexus plus, there will be always soylent green. Isn't it better to have it regulated and taxed properly?
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Is or Was?
Shalien@plexus Hum hum. I see it
Steve Holden@plexus yup, that’s where they are heading. Personally I’d rather be eaten than eat people, but then I’ve never been faced with the choice.
Yet.
slash@plexus The movie was based on a book by Harry Harrison called "Make Room!, Make Room!" and was a cautionary tale about overpopulation. In the book, he talks about eating soylent steaks, which are unsurprisingly made from soy beans and lentil beans. Soy + lentil == soylent. Humans have also had to start farming the sea, so they would eat "weed crackers", which were seaweed.
I'm not sure they used much else from the book.
Noodlemaz@plexus soylent will improve your business!
Try some!
What do you mean you don't want to
That makes no sense. You'll do better! You'll BE better! It can improve everything!!
What do you mean 'how', try it and you'll see
What do you mean 'why'? It's here, don't get left behind! Try SOYLENT today!!
(we've added some soylent to your lunch, your commute, your drinking water and your dentist's office. They're better now.)
Guys, guys, no need to panic.
You've all been enjoying Soylent Green for a while now, you just didn't know it 
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@plexus Isn't the entire Soylent business just based on assisted suicide? If you can't take it anymore, if you don't want to live anymore in a dying world, you can watch films of the Earth as it was before the biosphere began to unravel while drinking the poison that will painlessly end your life. And then the proteins and fats in your body get recycled into Soylent Green.
Fatsquatch@LordCaramac @plexus Honestly, given the Current State of Things, such a program sounds kind of inviting right now.
Bill Lloyd@plexus @atomicbird Indeed. We're in the process of getting rid of bullshit regulations. This sounds lie a great candidate for debureacratizing.
Robin Bobcat@plexus and think of all the jobs created, driving the scoops around!
@plexus Having seen the film, the people were not being killed to make soylent green. The killing was part of a voluntary euthanasia program enacted out of desperation at an extreme resource shortage. The soylent was just a way to dispose of the corpses while claiming back some of the desperately needed nutrition.
The origin of Soylent Green was concealed out of fear the secret could push a barely-functional society into complete breakdown, but the killing was all legal and publicly known.
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