Perfect !orphancrushing@lemmy.world.
Wasn’t there a Star Trek episode about this?
We’re the bad planet that the Federation has an existential crisis over helping.
Strange New Worlds s1e6 “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach.” Heavily adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.”
i read Catwings when I was a kid and cried at the ending
…and learned decades later she write science fiction. who is this woman.
She’s one of the treasures of English literature.
Her children’s books are as good as her science fiction themes calling out the fundamental problems we have to face as a civilization.
Was the city’s name Omelas?
Can somebody with art skills make a comic of a Make-A-Wish kid wanting to spend their wish on shooting a health insurance CEO as vengeance for bankrupting the kid’s parents for the cancer care? Maybe a panel or two of Make-A-Wish refusing and the kid saying something about how they’re gonna die soon anyway so the deterrent of penal punishment would be useless against them? Cyanide & Happiness could probably pull this off
That’s a wild but accurate take.