• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    So, major spoilers for The Good Place:

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    What you described is literally The Good Place’s scoring system. They even have a joke about losing points for eating a (really good) chicken sandwich, because buying the sandwich means you hate gay people. It is revealed pretty late in the show that nobody has actually gotten into the Good Place in a long time, because the modern world ensures all of your actions (no matter how altruistic) will basically always result in a net negative point gain. Basically, grandma altruistically baked cookies for the neighborhood kids, but the chocolate chips were made with unethically sourced cocoa, the fuel she used to make the cookies went towards polluting the environment, and she forgot that one of the neighborhood kids has celiacs and can’t eat gluten.