• WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    That’d be such a bullshit monkey paw. There’s nothing perverse about wishing for your health. There’s no moral where you go “oh man, I guess I shouldn’t have cared about my health.” It’s just pure “well fuck you, monkey”

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      In the original story, the protagonist wishes for $200k. Moments later, he gets a knock at the door from the life insurance company that insured his father for $200k.

      This follows a similar arc.