That’d be such a bullshit monkey paw. There’s nothing perverse about wishing for your health. There’s no moral where you go “oh man, I guess I shouldn’t have cared about my health.” It’s just pure “well fuck you, monkey”
In the original story, the protagonist wishes for $200k. Moments later, he gets a knock at the door from the life insurance company that insured his father for $200k.
I want to explicitly clarify that I do not support adventurism or type actions…
BUT…
If even some stochasticic terror stopped targeting schools and minorities and began taking out Saw mill or Healthcare execs? That would be an objective improvement.
Fuck, fuck… To be saved by your own child’s donated organ at the cost of their life. I can’t imagine the toll that would take her mind.
That’s the kind of shit that sends you right to Silent Hill
Doing IRL monkey’s paw shit.
That’d be such a bullshit monkey paw. There’s nothing perverse about wishing for your health. There’s no moral where you go “oh man, I guess I shouldn’t have cared about my health.” It’s just pure “well fuck you, monkey”
In the original story, the protagonist wishes for $200k. Moments later, he gets a knock at the door from the life insurance company that insured his father for $200k.
This follows a similar arc.
This is how political assassinations are going to return to America, not through coherent ideology but through personal revenge.
I want to explicitly clarify that I do not support adventurism or
type actions…
BUT…
If even some stochasticic terror stopped targeting schools and minorities and began taking out Saw mill or Healthcare execs? That would be an objective improvement.