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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bit of context and spoilers - He was making a statement about social media threats/harassment

The first part - using social media - whoever people vote to be killed, gets killed. Trying to show these actions have consequences. The people voting feel immune to these consequences. They just voted, they didn't kill anybody.
He goes through 5 rounds of voting, with more votes every time. After each round, the most voted for is killed.

Up to this point he's exposing people trying to use social media to try and harm people Eventually he turns it around, and kills everyone who voted

The whole thing kicked off because his friend/romantic interest tried to commit suicide from cyber bullying. He's pushing that these actions have consequences, even if you hide behind a screen.

The killer himself is a psycho, so the morals aren't exactly impactful to him. As for anyone else questioning, the definitely do.

Disclaimer - been a while since I watched the episode. It's pretty good, definitely need some suspension of disbelief (but that's most episodes)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get that what he's trying to do, it's just his actions are self-defeating. The only reason the behavior on social media has violent consequences is because he's imposing them; no one else in that story is killing people based on meaningless Facebook polls. They only matter because he makes them matter. He causes the problems he thinks he is solving.

Also he assumes his actions will make people reconsider their choices and change, which they won't because people for the most part aren't capable of change. Most people don't have the ability to do so. Those who do deliberately refuse to because they're happy the way they are regardless of their true nature's consequences to other people.

It's just a stupid gimmicky show pretending to be deep to get views. That's all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is how every episode of Black Mirror is. Just little interesting "what if" scenarios that make you think. In the same way that fairy tales are contrived and unrealistic these are too.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does this make you think?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that there's some discussion going on about it is evidence of that. It's similar to the "would you press a button for a million dollars but a random person on earth dies" type of question. "Does voting to kill someone mean your responsible for the murder if they're going to kill someone anyways?"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry i was just being mean to be mean. I think blackmirror is as thought provoking or interesting as the big bang theory

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Behavior on social media can definitely have consequences in real life, even violent. Many shooters vere radicalized by social media groups, for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A fair point. The episode just doesn't demonstrate it well at all.