• @lethargic_lemming
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    1 year ago

    idk about betray humanity. second movie made it pretty clear that the humans weren’t there for the good of humanity - it was to profit off (and destroy in the process) Pandora’s natural resources for the benefit of a few rich billionaires

    • @CluckN
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      611 year ago

      Would’ve been interesting if the whale blubber they were harvesting in the second movie cured cancer instead of being some luxury, “it makes you look young” juice.

      • @rockSlayer
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        It makes it more accurate though for them to kill a multiton animal for an ounce of proteins

        • @Dagnet
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          211 year ago

          Just like killings rhino’s for their horns, so they can make their pps hard

      • @Duamerthrax
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        201 year ago

        Anything organic like would be more efficient to synthesize after it’s discovery. If the writers said it can’t be synthesized, it would just be the writers pushing a false dichotomy. Very few things can’t be synthesized and the things that can’t, are harvested responsibly, like horseshoe crab blood.

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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          121 year ago

          The problem with sci-fi is that it comes with its own solutions. A responsible society would engineer a brainless whale it could grown in tanks back home.

          The problem comes when the usual culprits of capitalism (e.g. top-down management, the unyielding greed of shareholders for quick profits, decisions made based on limited information and no ingenuity) stop us from invoking a working solution.

          Competition between companies is supposed to fuel innovation and non-evil production, but mostly it promotes anti-competitive practices.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          But then it’s not natural! If I’m a future space billionaire, of course I’d want the real stuff with animal suffering involved, duh.

          • @Duamerthrax
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            61 year ago

            Normally, I’m against fraud, but if I could make a businesses of selling fake Rhino Horn Dick medicine to showoff millionaires, I would.

            • @CADmonkey
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              1 year ago

              Just fill some mason jars with some sort of powder (maybe plaster?) put a picture of a rhino on it and sell each one for $500.

              Edit: Maybe small vials full of ground-up fingernail would be more “realistic”?

              • @Duamerthrax
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                31 year ago

                I was joking, but there’s already counterfeit rhino horns being put out by conservationists.

      • @[email protected]
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        Nah, they just wanted to help make the region stable like the U.S. did with [insert third world country with oil or equivalent resources].