Well then, the readers were wrong :V
But seriously, I vastly preferred this pairing to the official one (which to ME reads as the archetypical Class S relationship, but hey, what do I know!). Oh well. It is what it is, I guess.

Oh, and the novels are the best version. V:

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1. Self-interest seems less culpable if you don't know the people you're hurting. Experiments show that our social circle is roughly capped to 150 people. Beyond that, we cannot care.

Lol, nah. You can absolutely not know someone at all and still care what happens to them. It's called bloody Empathy. Or, if not that, at least Sympathy. I'm not a trans man and cannot understand why someone would want to be a man, but I can still care enough about the rights of trans man to ensure they get the care and support they need to flourish. Or, you know, I'm not a fan of kids, but I still bloody care about kids I don't know getting the help/support/etc they need to live a better life than me.

Legal euthanasia is an outstandingly poor solution to mental health or anything. It's what happens when the 'problem solvers' in charge don't have any capacity for empathy nor the ability to be even slightly sympathetic to the plight of others. It fixes nothing that caused the problem in the first place. It's pure-strain greed through and through.

And I say that as the type of person that has been suicidal for years and years and would also hate to be revived after a suicide attempt.

Anyway, story seems interesting. Will stick with it at least for now.

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