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[iin2ufferable]

Let me get this straight: once your adult humans get too old to be useful, you just put them in a communal hive, force them into embarrassing but basically harmless shenanigans for a cheap laugh or two, and let them stay there to die? Is that really what humans do?

[ Priorities: Sollux has them. ]

Comments

[iin2ufferable]

What happens to the rest of them then?

[delincuente]

I-D-K, they live by themselves, or move in with their kids or something. It's not like there's some rule about what you have to do with old people.

[iin2ufferable]

So you don't cull them or anything like that?

[delincuente]

[Oh man, she'd almost forgotten about culling.]

Dude, no! I mean, there are people who do that, but it's not like legal or anything.

[iin2ufferable]

Oh.

[ He'd like to forget about it. ]

Even if they're sick too?

[delincuente]

Yeah. On Earth that's called "murder".

[Or euthanization, but she's not about to have that conversation with a troll.]

[iin2ufferable]

I know what murder is, thanks.

[delincuente]

Hey, just checking! I mean, you guys sleep in goo. There's bound to be some culture shock.

[Now she's just picking at him.]

[iin2ufferable]

Hey, look, it's not my fault humans sleep on uncomfortable lumpy plateaus.

Half my friends either wanted to or tried to kill the other half in varying degrees of success, I think I should know what murder is.

[ Someone's being a dramaqueen. ]

[delincuente]

[She raises an eyebrow at the journal.]

... Okay, that's new. Do you mean, like, literally "kill"?