Why not allowed if most of examples are "averted"?
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I'm necro-ing here, but that feels strangely appropriate. Anyway, the main answer would be that this is a "default" trope. It's kind of like if there were a trope called "People Don't Sit On Tables" (but far less pointless, of course). Listing every work of science-fiction that lacks transhumanism would be nuts, but listing all the ones that touch on it, whether by aversion, subversion, discussion, etc, is reasonable.
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Cut this line, which was an addendum to the Discworld entry on Literature:
- A YMMV, but no page to put it on: a clever cycle of Discworld fantasy fiction
postulates the existence of a Discworld South Africa, where an immigrant Igor inadvertently tests the limits of apartheid law by repairing a Vondalaandian white man with bodily parts harvested from a black man. The white state is then tied in knots as to how to racially classify the hapless rebuild. Most funny both as text and as a satire on the malignity of apartheid.
First of all, it's not Your Mileage May Vary, it's more along the lines of trivia. Secondly, it's fanfiction, and I'm not entirely sure that it fits this trope enough to merit a new folder for fanfic (I may have to read this fic to find out).
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wow that picture of sad children strip is venomous. It's good to know that Campbell spends time bring electricity to the 3rd world rather then waste his time with anything as white and nerdy as webcomics...
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If you read the next couple panels you'll note the character (not the author, don't confuse the two) takes digs at webcomics as well, and then gets called out on how he's acting by another character. Besides, the whole "if you aren't actively doing anything about it then you have no right to critize" attitude is a bit of an odd/unfair one to take in any case.
I remember something from either Heinlein or Doc Smith about, vaguely, how all cultures where people allowed their precious bodily fluids to be polluted by cybernetic implants wound up imploding, in the sort of tone that strongly implied that any *real man* would understand why this was the case. Can't seem to turn up exactly where that was, though. Possibly someone else will recall it more clearly.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: The Real Life section needs pruning.
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