[HN Gopher] Disqualified (1954)
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       Disqualified (1954)
        
       Author : EndXA
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2024-07-14 18:49 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | ThePowerOfFuet wrote:
       | Thank you for submitting this!
        
       | 6510 wrote:
       | It would have been more funny if the reason was not disclosed at
       | the end.
        
         | gwern wrote:
         | It's not supposed to be _funny_. The shock twist of it being
         | cannibalism is supposed to make you think about the nature of
         | default cultural assumptions and meta-ethics:  "what factors
         | Tardo would consider significant--probably very minor ones that
         | the average man would not notice, he thought", and which the
         | host fails to think of despite attempting to hide the slavery &
         | cannibalism, in the same way that you might serve a visitor
         | from India cow steak. (The author was from Brazil,
         | incidentally, which may be relevant to how you interpret this:
         | https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fontenay_charles_l )
        
       | awaythrow999 wrote:
       | YN hug of death?
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       | I wonder if there is a chance for HN to contribute some aid for
       | sites like this, archive.org, and others whenever their links are
       | on the frontpage.
        
         | throwaway2046 wrote:
         | Seconding this idea. IA especially is an astronomical gold mine
         | and its benefits to humanity as a whole are immeasurable, I'm
         | sure it could use non-monetary help beside the usual donation
         | campaigns.
        
       | msla wrote:
       | Main download page with more formats:
       | 
       | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30251
        
       | immibis wrote:
       | Terribly unrealistic, of course. No actual interstellar empire
       | would refuse to give aid to slavers. On the contrary, the
       | imperial core would give them more aid in order to quell any
       | slave uprising.
        
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