I still to this day don’t understand the point that book served. I don’t know if it was just a product of its time but I don’t think a bunch of children would behave like that in the event of being stranded

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    11 months ago

    I sort of hated some books like that also. Anyway, I think it was more meant to be an allegory about society than a realistic tale of something that might actually happen.

    • gabe [he/him]OPM
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      111 months ago

      Maybe I’m just built different but if society collapsed or something I wouldn’t do whatever that was

      • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈
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        I hope you never face those circumstances. However, you can’t say you won’t do something until choices could be a matter of life or death.

        There are a lot of discussions about society collapse in the not to distant future due to climate change effects on availability of water & food.

        I truly hope humanity can use enough new resources and much better management of the continued insane levels of damage to prevent the worst case scenarios.

      • Andjhostet
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        511 months ago

        You have no idea what you’d do when you’re a day away from starvation for weeks at a time.

        Unless you’ve been there, in which case, ignore me.

      • Zeppo
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        511 months ago

        That’s the thing… it’s not really about society collapsing or being stranded on an island. It’s about human nature and how people set up societies.