The pill was so potent that even a single dose could alter one's entire life, leaving no room for second thoughts. The pill was so widely used that it became a secret project of carceral states, where the ethics and economics of the pill's creation were kept under wraps. The pill's users were left to their own devices, with no one willing to share the details of its creation or the reasons behind its existence.
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The End Times Pill was a highly illegal, easy-to-obtain substance that caused irreversibl…: The End Times Pill was a highly illegal, easy-to-obtain substance that caused irreversible changes.
It was initially offered for free and could only be obtained once, leaving no room for se…: It was initially offered for free and could only be obtained once, leaving no room for second thoughts.
The pill became a secret project of carceral states, where the ethics and economics of it…: The pill became a secret project of carceral states, where the ethics and economics of its creation were kept under wraps.
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It was highly illegal. It was easy to get. The first dose was free and nobody needed a second one. It only took one time, one moment of temptation, to change you forever (nobody had tried to find an antidote and tangled ethics and poor economics made it unlikely anybody would outside the grim secret laboratories of carceral states, and what they found they wouldn't share).
Nobody had come forward to boast of having invented the pill or could find who was making it or why. And nobody who took it needed to be asked for an explanation. It was quietly decided more through silence than through debate to ignore those who did — to leave them to the strange envied state of no longer being able to feel despair — and hope that those who had children... What it was hoped the undespairing ones would do when making breakfast for their children, what they would give or not give kids too young for choice and too innocent for hopelessness, was also unexpressed and perhaps unknown.
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