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- - - - Dehumanized
        
        Oppressed
        
        exploited
        
        Dehumanized: denying others the full rights of being human and ...
        
        Creates opportunity for a Zero Sum Game by convincing the majority that Others are less than human and not for consideration.
        
        "One's Utopia is another's Dystopia" is a saying that recognizes the existence of both a utopia and dystopia as a result of the same system, creating a Zero Sum Game.
        
        The society benefits from the other nation's internal suffering caused by
        the materialism they exploit.
        
        Utopia (More)
        
        The sacrificial child suffers while all other members of society prosper. "[Normal people's] tears at the bitter injustice dry when they begin to perceive the terrible justice of reality, and to accept it. [...] Theirs is no vapid, irresponsible happiness. (Omelas, Le Guin)
        
        Omelas (Le Guin)
        
        Normal members of society are saved from illness because of the harvested organs.
        
        Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro)
        
        Violent measures must be taken to continue this peaceful existence.
        
        The Ones Who Stay and Fight (Jemisin)
        
        When not viewed as human, the oppressors benefit greatly from exploiting enslaved people.
        
        “Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.” (Whitehead, TUR)
        
        The Underground Railroad (Whitehead)
        
        "What does it mean to be human?"
        
        Posthumanism: What is human, and how do we tell or know?
        
        Orogenes exist with unique abilities in contrast to normal individuals, but are still human.
        
        The Fifth Season (Jemisin)
        
        “We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.” (Ishiguro, NLMG)
        
        Exploited: selfishly taking advantage of a a group of people.
        
        The clones in Ishiguro's NLMG are raised to have their organs harvested.
        
        Oppressed: Rights given to normal citizens are not given to Others
- - - - Reproduction under oppressive systems remains oppressive.
        
        In some societies represents humanity and is a point of othering.
        
        “Which is that none of us could have babies. I’d somewhat picked up on that idea when I was younger without fully registering it” (Ishiguro, NLMG)
        
        “Your assignment is to produce a child with this man” (Jemisin, TFS)
    - - Often limited by systems.
        
        "a more egalitarian society with men and women living and working together as equals would lead to a new kind of relationship based on love and mutual affection, unsullied by questions of worth, value, and exchange” (Ghodsee, 2020).
        
        Sexuality is more fulfilling in more equal systems, and not a consideration in oppressive systems.
        
        The pirate-socialist society of Meor in Jemisin's TFS allows Syenite and Alabaster to be sexually filled outside of the constructs
        
        Commodification and limitation of sexuality to how it creates more humans to exploit in Jemisin's TFS.
- - - - (Comment 4), Rising global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.
- - - - “The family acts as a unit of consumption and teaches passive acceptance of hierarchy” (Thompson, 2021).
      - Capitalism not only exploits people, but the environment as well.
        
        This leads to climate change.
        
        “But early in the twenty-first century it became clear that the planet was incapable of sustaining everyone alive at Western levels, and at that point the richest pulled away into their fortress mansions" (Robinson, TMFTF)
      - (Comment 1) “Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at those contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they'll break themselves trying for what they'll never achieve.”
    - - (Comment 5), A satirical illustration representing Capitalism
  - - - Both systems reflect utopian principles of equality as an effort towards reduced suffering.
        
        “Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?” (More, Utopia)
        
        It’s the Day of Good Birds in Um-Helat, where every soul matters, and even the idea that some might not is anathema. (Jemisin, TOWSAF)
- - - - Ishiguro's NLMG is portrayed as dystopian through the narrator, but...
      - Cataclysmic environmental decline represents one of the closest realities to a true dystopia, as no human party gains.
      - Whitehead's TUGR is a historical fiction work that is horrific and dystopian for enslaved people but...
  - - - More's Utopia was the original utopian blueprint, but...
      - Le Guin's Omelas is a perfect society free of suffering for nearly all, but...
      - Jemisin's The Ones Who Stay and Fight is perfectly equal, celebrates differences, and all are taken care of, but...