says the monster intent on genocide
Man, Cthulhu has lived in the murky depths of the ocean for TENS OF MILLIONS of years now, and people still comment on where itโs from originally. /s
Itโs the genocide to end all genocide.
Last time something similar was said it went wonderful I thinkโฆ
Dexter rules, if you genocide serial genociders then itโs net positive.
you think collective punishment is the way to go?
4 people from Cincinnati rob a bank, so everybody in Cincinnati should go to jail?
Yeah, that one rings a bit hollow, although I guess it could use it as an argument weโre dumb, because weโre doing it to ourselves. All the rest could theoretically apply, though.
โcould, theoreticallyโ, sure.
but in practice those condemnations are too broadly applied and donโt reflect the constant struggle for progress or range of human success.
What an appropriate subject of conversation, because Iโm pretty sure by the art style this is Existential Comics.
The use of โin practiceโ suggests an absolute morality, which I think Lovecraft would object to, and I think many Lemmy users would as well. That aside, pretty much the only counter to this is that weโve toned down the war, slavery and brutal exploitation over the last 200 years. The last 10,000 before that and probably the last 200,000 before that are kind of the same thing happening over and over again. Whatโs more, nobody can adequately explain why itโs suddenly started to improve, or if it will stay that way. For all we know, we live in the turbulent transition period between agrarian hereditary autocracy and dystopian high-tech hereditary autocracy.
All in all, humanity is (morally) shit by humanityโs own standards. By nihilistic or existential standards humanity is neutral, as is everything else. Cthulhuโs standards are canonically beyond comprehension.
I like how this is illustrated, Cthulhu looks like a dude with a dad bod in a loose fitting wetsuit.
How any Outer Gods would actually answer:
โA whole ass country just re-elected the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.โ
How can you say that - itโs a totally different color?
(The rest of the looks are there tho)
If weโre going with Cthulhu Wars colors, the orange faction is the Sleeper, and their Great Old One is Tsathoggua. Iโd like to quote a description from โThe Tale of Satampra Zeiroโ for no particular reason :
He was very squat and pot-bellied, his head was more like a monstrous toad than a deity
Yes, please destroy us.
