Quietly in the night, you are handed the Tree Ray.
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Quietly in the night, you are handed the Tree Ray. It does one thing and only one thing, and that is turning people into trees. Anyone at all you fire it at? Instantly a tree. A nice, healthy, lush tree with a sturdy root system, multiple symbiotic species in, on and around it, just doing its tree best. Probably attracting a bunch of birds, too.
...How careful are you to tree people up?
@sinituulia This sounds nice, but the problem as always is why should I have the ultimate say in radically changing someone’s life/ ending their existence as known? Individuals playing god never ends well, no matter how well intentioned. We seem to do better with groups coming to consensus, though that doesn’t always work either. Maybe something like a treeth and reconciliation council? We do need ethical ways of holding evil accountable.
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Quietly in the night, you are handed the Tree Ray. It does one thing and only one thing, and that is turning people into trees. Anyone at all you fire it at? Instantly a tree. A nice, healthy, lush tree with a sturdy root system, multiple symbiotic species in, on and around it, just doing its tree best. Probably attracting a bunch of birds, too.
...How careful are you to tree people up?
@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe Where's the option for "Starts off with 'never use it' but then uses it once which starts a slow cascade of internal moral decay which eventually gets me 'war criminal' status" ?
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@sinituulia This sounds nice, but the problem as always is why should I have the ultimate say in radically changing someone’s life/ ending their existence as known? Individuals playing god never ends well, no matter how well intentioned. We seem to do better with groups coming to consensus, though that doesn’t always work either. Maybe something like a treeth and reconciliation council? We do need ethical ways of holding evil accountable.
@IcooIey A council would probably be all well and good, yes... It doesn't seem like the holding accountable bit is currently working, though
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"Hey, what's up, Sini?"
Oh, nothing. Just watching some Last Week Tonight and daydreaming about turning a bunch of people into trees 🫠
@sinituulia ooh, that's an excellent idea.
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@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe Where's the option for "Starts off with 'never use it' but then uses it once which starts a slow cascade of internal moral decay which eventually gets me 'war criminal' status" ?
@jmelesky I'm in a slightly dark mood probably but that did get a delighted cackle out of me. Ah, it's probably good I don't have any real power, or a Tree Ray.
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Quietly in the night, you are handed the Tree Ray. It does one thing and only one thing, and that is turning people into trees. Anyone at all you fire it at? Instantly a tree. A nice, healthy, lush tree with a sturdy root system, multiple symbiotic species in, on and around it, just doing its tree best. Probably attracting a bunch of birds, too.
...How careful are you to tree people up?
@sinituulia shortcircuiting the ethical quandary here by immediately becoming a tree
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Quietly in the night, you are handed the Tree Ray. It does one thing and only one thing, and that is turning people into trees. Anyone at all you fire it at? Instantly a tree. A nice, healthy, lush tree with a sturdy root system, multiple symbiotic species in, on and around it, just doing its tree best. Probably attracting a bunch of birds, too.
...How careful are you to tree people up?
@sinituulia
I'm not gonna go look for it now, but I have seen a video go around, a Captain Planet spoof where he has a pelvic-thrust ray that Trees people.I'd be unstoppable.
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@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe Where's the option for "Starts off with 'never use it' but then uses it once which starts a slow cascade of internal moral decay which eventually gets me 'war criminal' status" ?
@jmelesky @sinituulia
The ol' "ecologically concerned" to "literal war criminal" pipeline, eh? -
@afewbugs I figure as long as it would be completely clear who you're locked on, even remotely would work?
@sinituulia @afewbugs Excellent. Suddenly the world has way fewer politicians and authoritarian ppl in general.
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@IcooIey A council would probably be all well and good, yes... It doesn't seem like the holding accountable bit is currently working, though
@sinituulia it never does for long, it’s an arms race against interests always trying to gain more for themselves, avoid accountability. But we have to trying.
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Quietly in the night, you are handed the Tree Ray. It does one thing and only one thing, and that is turning people into trees. Anyone at all you fire it at? Instantly a tree. A nice, healthy, lush tree with a sturdy root system, multiple symbiotic species in, on and around it, just doing its tree best. Probably attracting a bunch of birds, too.
...How careful are you to tree people up?
@sinituulia this is the Don Cheadle is Captain Planet video series
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@sinituulia this is the Don Cheadle is Captain Planet video series
@hache Someone posted GIFs of it, and I'd not even remembered I'd seen it, and it only then came back to me. But yeah, there's a couple of GIFs somewhere in this thread
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Quietly in the night, you are handed the Tree Ray. It does one thing and only one thing, and that is turning people into trees. Anyone at all you fire it at? Instantly a tree. A nice, healthy, lush tree with a sturdy root system, multiple symbiotic species in, on and around it, just doing its tree best. Probably attracting a bunch of birds, too.
...How careful are you to tree people up?
@sinituulia my biggest wish since childhood was to be a tree, so I would probably not get very far before using it on myself
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@sinituulia my biggest wish since childhood was to be a tree, so I would probably not get very far before using it on myself
@iwein I hope that one day I can become a tree, if one is planted on my remains
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