Lois Lowry. Wasn’t this a thing in The Giver?
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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
we need the original author’s names.
they need to be on a list somewhere for… additional oversight.
just saying you don’t come to this ‘scientific conclusion’ in a vacuum, someone needs to check the rest of their… social circle.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
man I read that so long ago, but I don’t remember this…
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The only thing I took away from reading it in elementary school was the discovery that my english teacher couldn’t identify a pedophile if given a map, a copy of the criminal indictment for pedophilia and a big flashing neon sign that reads “pedophile”…
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
whenever I encounter people like that it makes me wonder if they’re pedos…
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well it was a woman philosopher and likely written with the dichotomy in mind that we accept organ donation while reviling paying people to sell one their kidneys/part of their livers/one of their lungs and also accept surrogacy while reviling this simple proposal.