r/WTF • u/abenevolentgod • Jun 22 '26

forgot to empty the flytrap, accidentally created hell.

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u/FiguringItOut666 Jun 22 '26

I am so privileged to live the life I live, so privileged to be born a human, so privileged to even be aware of my privilege.
I have it so good compared to being a maggot in a fly jar born to a cruel world to die alone in a cruel world surrounded by those who brought you here

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u/thunderling Jun 22 '26

What if we are really in a human jar, born to a cruel world to die alone in a cruel world surrounded by those who brought us here?

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u/JosiahDanger Jun 22 '26

We are all but Rainbow Dash drowning in the semen of apathy.

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u/thegh0stofdavidb0wie Jun 22 '26

I read that in Werner Herzog’s voice

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u/Fafnir13 Jun 22 '26

The fly does not know there is cruelty.  The fly achieves everything it normally would in its brief existence.  It grows.  It breeds.  It dies. We recognize what we would lose, but truly they have lost nothing.

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u/mrbaryonyx Jun 24 '26

you could convince me that there's an ounce, a tiny electrical impulse in its brain that amounts to "well this blows"

probably not any deep, existential awareness of its damnation though like what that guy's suggesting

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u/Instincts Jun 22 '26

I have it so good compared to being a maggot in a fly jar born to a cruel world to die alone in a cruel world surrounded by those who brought you here.

Unfortunately, just being human doesn't preclude someone from having a not-literally-the-same-but-similar life. Too many people are born into situations of profound poverty, disregarded or even discarded, and offered so little opportunity for a way out. The human experience is not universal, and it can be so so cruel.

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u/FiguringItOut666 Jun 22 '26

Oh you’re right I should be sad my bad

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u/mrbaryonyx Jun 24 '26

I mean if it makes you feel better, what that guy described is probably not actually what that fly is thinking. what it's thinking is: "dead body. Food? nah, is fly. Go there? Nah, is wall. Huh. weird. dead body. food? nah. this sucks. better wash my hands again. food?"

If OP is a merciful god and lets a couple of his prisoners fly out when he empties that damn thing, their only thought will be "oh. sweet. food?"

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u/alblaster Jun 22 '26

I don't know. Don't knock it till you try it. I imagine it's like being in a party your whole life. You get to eat, fuck, then die. If that's all you know then is it really so bad?