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* While Ryan wasn’t aiming for a SocialDarwinist society, he inadvertently made Rapture this by forbidding charities. Just imagine your child being the Littlest Cancer Patient, but you and your spouse don’t have enough money to afford the treatment. There’s no one to collect donations from citizens who are sympathetic to your child’s situation, and there’s no organization similar to Make-A-Wish that can allow your child to enjoy their last moments in life. It’s tragic enough to have your child die because there’s no one to give you the help you desperately need, but to have the implication that your child is a “parasite” because they need help from others for [[BlamingTheVictim something they have no control over]] would enrage [[PapaWolf any]] [[MamaBear parent]]. Fontaine may be a ManipulativeBastard who set up his orphanage to get his hands on children to use as guinea pigs, but he’s smart enough to realize that he needs to give the parents ''some'' form of reassurance that they’re child will get a better life.

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* While Ryan wasn’t aiming for a SocialDarwinist society, he inadvertently made Rapture this by forbidding charities. Just imagine your child being the Littlest Cancer Patient, LittlestCancerPatient, but you and your spouse don’t have enough money to afford the treatment. There’s no one to collect donations from citizens who are sympathetic to your child’s situation, and there’s no organization similar to Make-A-Wish that can allow your child to enjoy their last moments in life. It’s tragic enough to have your child die because there’s no one to give you the help you desperately need, but to have the implication that your child is a “parasite” because they need help from others for [[BlamingTheVictim something they have no control over]] would enrage [[PapaWolf any]] [[MamaBear parent]]. Fontaine may be a ManipulativeBastard who set up his orphanage to get his hands on children to use as guinea pigs, but he’s smart enough to realize that he needs to give the parents ''some'' form of reassurance that they’re child will get a better life.
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* While Ryan wasn’t aiming for a SocialDarwinist society, he inadvertently made Rapture this by forbidding charities. Just imagine your child being the Littlest Cancer Patient, but you and your spouse don’t have enough money to afford the treatment. There’s no one to collect donations from citizens who are sympathetic to your child’s situation, and there’s no organization similar to Make-A-Wish that can allow your child to enjoy their last moments in life. It’s tragic enough to have your child die because there’s no one to give you the help you desperately need, but to have the implication that your child is a “parasite” because they need help from others for [[BlamingTheVictim something they have no control over]] would enrage [[PapaWolf any]] [[MamaBear parent]]. Fontaine may be a ManipulativeBastard who set up his orphanage to get his hands on children to use as guinea pigs, but he’s smart enough to realize that he needs to give the parents ''some'' form of reassurance that they’re child will get a better life.
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** Even worse: listening to Atlas' diary makes it not unreasonable to distrust her, considering her timing and what she says. But she was recording herself during that moment and her recording shows: she knew of nothing. She was just talking to herself before seeing him, not even having heard anything but the last few words.

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** Even worse: listening to Atlas' diary makes it not unreasonable to distrust her, considering her timing and what she says. But she was recording herself during that moment and her recording shows: [[SheepInSheepsClothing she knew of nothing.nothing]]. She was just talking to herself before seeing him, not even having heard anything but the last few words.
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** A possibility that makes it even more depressing in a bizarre way is that that woman may not have ever had a child in her life; she may have been seeing a ghost baby she would never be able to touch and hold. Someone else's baby. Someone who spliced up, died, and ended up harvested by a Little Sister, creating recycled Adam that was then injected into this woman. And she's simply too spliced and traumatized out of her mind to recognize that it's not her baby. Rapture truly is a place of cyclic, mindbending horror.

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** A possibility that makes it even more depressing in a bizarre way is that that woman may not have ever had a child in her life; she may have been seeing a ghost baby she would never be able to touch and hold. Someone else's baby. Someone who spliced up, died, and ended up harvested by a Little Sister, creating recycled Adam that was then injected into this woman. woman; which carries with it traces of other peoples' memories. And she's simply too spliced and traumatized out of her mind to recognize that it's not her baby.''her'' baby she is imagining. Rapture truly is a place of cyclic, mindbending horror.
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* Everytime a Big Daddy who is protecting a Little Sister gets killed, the child tearfully pleads her fallen protector to get back up.

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* Everytime Every time a Big Daddy who is protecting a Little Sister gets killed, the child tearfully pleads her fallen protector to get back up.

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