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Casual guro settings



So, casual guro is surely hot. But there is always a problem with it: if everyone's killing themselves all the time, how the hell does the society work? How people don't just go extinct? So here are a some solutions I thought about.

Solution 1: they don't really die.
So maybe like in Car Fight where they can disassemble their bodies all the way to splitting the brain in two and then they can assemble it back or even if they don't they can regenerate. And even if they manage to kill the brain, they'll just be restored from a backup in a clone body.
Or the setting I described here: https://www.gurochan.cx/lit/res/5404.html#9704
But fun as it is for dismemberment and such, it kinda defeats the point of dying. So let's also explore other options.

Solution 2: restore population by cloning.
People do die when they die, but clone factories produce more people so that population doesn't decline. Then since someone has to raise the kids, let's say robots do. Because if we have cloning, why not AI too. Though being mass produced, characters suffer a bit in personality. Like, why would you care for the character who is just one clone among millions of similar ones? And wasn't even raised by human parents. Makes them feel somewhat less like a person, I guess?
But anyway, I've already mentioned this one before in a thread on /dis/. What I wanted to talk about is yet another option.

Solution 3: Dyson swarm.
So there's that guy on YouTube, Isaac Arthur. Does awesome videos on various concept in Science Fiction and how they connect to real life. So one of the ideas is that we won't colonize other planets. Because just building habitats like O'Niel and McKendree Cylinders from asteroids is way way way easier than terraforming a planet. And when you run out of asteroids, you start disassembling planets, because so much mass in the planets just sits under the surface with no use. If you use it all to build habitats, you get way way way more living area. Also the growth will be exponential because each factory in space fuels building more factories. And before long you have a Dyson swarm of habitats around just our Sun that supports orders of magnitudes more population than any galaxy-spanning empire from fiction.
So what's the use of it for guro?
First, since by that time automation will make it into a post-scarcity sosciety, many people will seek for new ways of having fun, which might lead them to guro.
But second, most importantly, with such a huge population, you don't even have to take that into account. Just take the same percentage of people willing to be hurt and killed as exists in our world today and multiply by how insanely huge the population will be, and you'll have lots and lots of people dying for the fun of it every day. Combining the large absolute numbers of people willing to die with how low its relative impact on the whole society is, the society will come to accept it. It will be rare in relative terms, so the possibility of your daughter in particular coming up to you saying she wants you to hang her would be as low as it would be in the real world today, but if you look at the while solar system, at every moment if time something like this will happen somewhere. And since you can watch the news from the whole solar system, there's some lag due to speed of light, but it's still real time compared to if it was an interstellar civilization, you're kinda used to it even if you've never personally knew any snuff volunteers and you never even personally knew anyone who personally knew such a person, but in the end you're still used to it thanks to the media. So when your daughter comes up to you and asks to be hanged, you're surprised because the chances that it will be your daughter in particular who wants to die are still as low as they would be today, but on the other hand you're also kinda prepared because you know these things happen all the time. So you go "sure, sweetheart, do you want a long or short drop?" And it will be, of course, totally legal, because it doesn't hurt the society.
Next, since it's legal to snuff willing victims, there's no reason not to make profit out of it. Or at least have more fun by broadcasting it, because who knows how economy works in a post-scarcity society, maybe they don't have money or they don't work like we're used to. Anyway, no reason not to film it so that more people can watch it and have fun, right? But the point is that across the whole solar system a day's worth of such content will be generated every hour. Or something. I'm too lazy to do the math. But you get the idea. When you can't possibly watch all of the content, competition arises. Different broadcasting companies will have their own snuff shows, each trying to be more creative then the other, or maybe specializing in a certain niche, like a specific show for snuffing children. Speaking of children, since I wouldn't have my snuff utopia without snuffing children, let's imagine the legal age is like seven. With a post-scarcity economy a seven year old child can leave their parent's home and live on their own just as fine, having robots to any work, so no the laws come to think of them as legally adult. Which also gives them the right to volunteer for snuff. Furthermore, we can imagine children younger then seven can be volunteered by their parents / legal guardians. Because not yet having all the rights they're kinda legally not their own person anyway. And since it's a sci-fi future, people probably have a longer lifespan, so it's okay to kill your children because you have plenty of time to make new ones. Too much of a stretch to still call the setting realistic? Okay, then let's think of it this way: there are lots and lots of habitats around the sun, living surface of each can vary from area of New York to entire area of Russia. We can assume laws can be very different from habitat to habitat, and among such a large number of them there might be one or two that allows parents to kill their underage children. And it is all it takes for any parent who wants to kill their child to just move to that particular habitat and to the deed there. Most their home habitat can do is prohibit them from coming back, but then they can either stay living at the snuff-friendly one or move to one which while doesn't allow killing children, also doesn't care for your past deeds at other habitats. With how many habitats there are, there can be like a habitat that imitates wild west dominated by outlaws and who knows how many kinds of crazy habitats as long as they don't harm other habitats. Which brings us to the ides of guro-themed habitats.
An entire habitat dedicated to guro. Built by one of the guro-specialized broadcasting corporations. The whole population consists of volunteers who constantly arrive from the whole solar system. And the habitat's living area can be as big as Russia, and the whole area filled with people willing to die and there are always enough volunteers to replace them. They are free to kill themselves and each other, though they are also free to try and live a normal life until somebody decides to kill them. Children are free to kill too. If a child is born in this habitat, parents can choose to send the child away if they don't want them to be killed. Of course, adults (meaning 7+) are always free to leave too. So if a child is born in this habitat and manages to survive until they are 7, if they don't want to be killed, they are free to go. And then there are tourists, who probably have to pay insane amounts of money, and who are free to kill the inhabitants, but are save themselves.
As for sex and nudity, I imagine laws may also vary a lot from habitat to habitat, but in those where 7 makes you legally adult, of course it also means you can have sex and all, though laws can vary on whether you can do it in public and be naked in public. But you most surely can do both in the guro-friendly areas.
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