• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    I think the idea is that their life on this island is more enjoyable than their previous life. So they decide they want to stay there after all.

    Which honestly is understandable on an emotional level sometimes but realistically they would be dead after a few weeks from unclean water, wildlife, infection, illness, etc

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      8 months ago

      I mean if they’ve been there for two years I’m sure that means they’ve learned how to purify water at least to a drinkable state, but also, has the rescue beacon even been working.

      I bet the dude never actually turned it on and has just pretended he did, playing the long game to get the lady to wanna spend time with him.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, I get wanting to unplug and get away, but the first serious illness or injury will have them wishing they still had a way to call for help.

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        8 months ago

        Even beyond that, I think this sentiment is easy to get into from the comfort of climate controlled, weatherproof structures, with abundant food that doesn’t require months of forethought and planning to farm or energy expenditure to hunt or gather. I’d love to chuck up materialism and peer pressure, but I’m firmly attached to the various infrastructures that make my life so comfortable.

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            8 months ago

            When my mom had to poop as a kid, she had to stand on two planks of wood and squat over a hole in the ground, out in the open. I love my toilet.

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              7 months ago

              Well that’s nature’s toilet, not nature’s FLUSH toilet. Its also far from modern civilization. It works okay for one or two people in an area they don’t live in. It doesn’t work so well for massive populations on top of one another. I’d even argue that without flush toilets we wouldn’t have modern civilization.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t think that the beacon works that way. The way I interpreted the comic the beacon has been active for the two years and still no help arrived.

        Destroying it doesn’t really change anything, most likely it wasn’t working anyhow because otherwise you aren’t stranded for two years. It might just make it easier to accept rescue isn’t coming. And doing it voluntary because you prefer the lifestyle could be good moral boost.

        But yes, if you are voluntary on an island you want means to contact help. What Masafumi Nagasaki did sounds pretty sweet sometimes. Living naked and alone on an island just getting groceries every few weeks for 30 years.