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[-] lethargic_lemming@lemmy.world 132 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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@lemmy.world 60 points 8 months 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@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months 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.

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 months 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@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months 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@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

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

[-] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 37 points 8 months ago

I've only seen the first one and I'm pretty sure they made that clear in the first one.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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].

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Wow who would have ever seen that coming

[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

"Wee need wahle brains!"

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Missing the last two points:

> Would do it again

> Did nothing wrong

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

REJECT MODERNITY, EVOLVE

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Da ba dee da ba di

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