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** Some new readers have taken away AnAesop about cancer, capitalism, or some other accepted part of life. The rare, reconstructed stance that aging is a genetic disorder we must cure goes over their head.
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** Some new Although the story is stated by its creator to be AnAesop against being complacent with the inevitability of death, some readers have taken away AnAesop about cancer, capitalism, or that the story is against complacency with some other accepted part of life. The rare, reconstructed stance that aging life -- capitalism, cancer, society, etc. -- and the dragon's consumption of humans is a genetic disorder we must cure goes over their head.meant to be metaphorical not for the lives claimed by mortality, but some other issue caused by the accepted part of life.
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It is real blatant, except that one dragon was USSR, but seni scifi society profiting and built round a dragon feeding off it? Extremely specific
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Lem's Pożytek ze smoka? Nope, never heard of it.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The fable goes out of its way to defy and deconstruct WhoWantsToLiveForever supremely harshly to raise awareness and declares many vastly popular works incorrect. TheGrimReaper represents ThePlague in its deadliest form and an EldritchAbomination of an unprecedented scale that holds humanity in StockholmSyndrome. Bostrom treats promoters of accepting death as conspiracy theorists that skew priorities and hide their errors with hollow rhetoric. In the appendix, Bostrom declares stories promoting accepting death as outdated and dangerous with one sentence, meaning he had to be heavy-handed in his situation to raise awareness.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The fable goes out of its way to defy and deconstruct WhoWantsToLiveForever supremely harshly to raise awareness and declares many vastly popular works incorrect. TheGrimReaper represents ThePlague in its deadliest form and an EldritchAbomination of an unprecedented scale that holds humanity in StockholmSyndrome.UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome. Bostrom treats promoters of accepting death as conspiracy theorists that skew priorities and hide their errors with hollow rhetoric. In the appendix, Bostrom declares stories promoting accepting death as outdated and dangerous with one sentence, meaning he had to be heavy-handed in his situation to raise awareness.
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*CompleteMonster: The titular [[DraconicAbomination dragon]], having existed since time immemorial, forced mankind to [[HumanSacrifice feed it ten thousand souls]], pumping it up to eighty and eventually one hundred thousand as it grows. On many occasions, the dragon would lock its victims up to waste away for years, while [[EvilIsPetty ransacking villages for either the delay of its deliveries or its own amusement]], continuing to remain a looming presence over all mankind until the day it died.
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* UnacceptableTargets: Invoked towards advocates of LivingForeverIsAwesome, as noted above.
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Once Acceptable Targets is no longer a trope
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* OnceAcceptableTargets: Invoked towards those who advocate LivingForeverIsAwesome: halting aging, once thought laughable, is becoming a feasible field with gene drive technology on the table.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some detractors of the fable claim that it fails to touch on the wider social implications of immortality in favor of exploring the ethical side. This position has itself garnered some criticism, as fans respond that the fable is not meant to address anything beyond the ethical side and that you don't need to know how to do something better than someone to know that they're doing the wrong thing.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some detractors of the fable claim that it fails to touch on the wider social implications of immortality in favor of exploring just bashing the ethical side. side as hard as possible. This position has itself garnered some criticism, as fans respond that the fable is not meant to address anything beyond the ethical side and that you don't need to know how to do something better than someone to know that they're doing the wrong thing.it wrong.
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** Aside from the dragon, there are also mentions of tigers and rattlesnakes threatening villages and killing people; perhaps a subtle hint at non-aging-related accidents that we overdramatize?
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** At face value, the king's choice to delay launching even as 100,000 die every day could also be to avoid the dragon's wrath. If the missile missed but still came within the dragon's sight, it would know the humans are trying to slay it and might have ravaged the entire kingdom, costing far more lives than delaying the launch would. His refusal to stop the final train, set to arrive 5 minutes before launch, might have been partially motivated by the same fear.
** Are the king's advisors convinced that the dragon is natural and inevitable when they fervently defend it, or are they just TooDumbToLive and value the dragon for power over the masses over self-preservation, as they will also die to feed it one day?
** Is the dragon an AlwaysChaoticEvil being who only cares about gorging itself on humans, or has it come to the point of BelievingTheirOwnLies and sees itself as a positive to humans?
** At face value, the king's choice to delay launching even as 100,000 die every day could also be to avoid the dragon's wrath. If the missile missed but still came within the dragon's sight, it would know the humans are trying to slay it and might have ravaged the entire kingdom, costing far more lives than delaying the launch would. His refusal to stop the final train, set to arrive 5 minutes before launch, might have been partially motivated by the same fear.
** Are the king's advisors convinced that the dragon is natural and inevitable when they fervently defend it, or are they just TooDumbToLive and value the dragon for power over the masses over self-preservation, as they will also die to feed it one day?
** Is the dragon an AlwaysChaoticEvil being who only cares about gorging itself on humans, or has it come to the point of BelievingTheirOwnLies and sees itself as a positive to humans?
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** At face value, the king's choice to delay launching even as 100,000 die every day could also be to avoid the dragon's wrath. If the missile missed but still came within the dragon's sight, it would know the humans are trying to slay it and might have ravaged the entire kingdom, costing far more lives than delaying the launch would. His refusal to stop the final train, set to arrive 5 minutes before launch, might have been partially motivated by the same fear.
**AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the king's advisors convinced that the dragon is natural and inevitable when they fervently defend it, or are they just TooDumbToLive and value the dragon for power over the masses over self-preservation, as they will also die to feed it one day?
** Is the dragon an AlwaysChaoticEvil being who only cares about gorging itself on humans, or has it come to the point of BelievingTheirOwnLies and sees itself as a positive to humans?day?
** At face value, the king's choice to delay launching even as 100,000 die every day could also be to avoid the dragon's wrath. If the missile missed but still came within the dragon's sight, it would know the humans are trying to slay it and might have ravaged the entire kingdom, costing far more lives than delaying the launch would. His refusal to stop the final train, set to arrive 5 minutes before launch, might have been partially motivated by the same fear.
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** Is the dragon an AlwaysChaoticEvil being who only cares about gorging itself on humans, or has it come to the point of BelievingTheirOwnLies and sees itself as a positive to humans?
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Society associates the words "fable" with children's literature, but this short story is nothing of the sort with its existential topics. The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragontyrant.png childishly drawn dragon]] doesn't help matters.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Society associates the words "fable" with children's literature, but this short story is nothing of the sort with its existential topics. The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragontyrant.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonsketch.png childishly drawn dragon]] doesn't help matters.
