I once saw a comment from a self-labeled ‘Christian conservative’ that was something to the tune of: “We need to stop taking the religion out of everything, because otherwise what’s to stop people from raping and stealing and killing and blah blah.”

It was then that I first had the horrifying revelation that this person (and many others, I’m sure) is at least quite strongly implying that without the threat of hell they wouldn’t have any reason to NOT do any of those things.

‘Great Replacement Theory’, huh?

Business men doing… Business?

That would imply some form of justice being done, so…

Well, otherwise it would ruin your immersion

Which just so happens to be the perfect segue for me to pitch my proposal to make ‘cunt’ the de facto (gender neutral, naturally) pronoun/collective pronoun.

I find your assertion that anything resembling “thinking” may occur at any point with such people either very generous or quite naive 😋

I agree with most of this, but how have you never come across Munch’s “The Scream” before? (Have to admit, I lol’d at your description of it tho)