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Why was Pankot demonized compared to the other village?

posted 8 months ago by Heretic (326)
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Let's face it: things aren't perfect in Pankot, but I'd rather live there than in the dumpy village that had it's rock "stolen" (though they don't provide any actual proof of this).

I mean, that dumpy village is a shithole. Like literally, they don't even have indoor plumbing. They're also in abject poverty and are starving since they apparently aren't good at farming.

Meanwhile, at Pankot, the architecture is great. The culture is vibrant. The food is plentiful.

"Oh, but they have child labor at Pankot!", you may ask. And? What do you think happens in the dumpy village in the film? They have child laborers that they can't even feed that have to work outside all day! I'd much be one of the well-fed child laborers in Pankot that gets real meals and the privilege of working indoors than be a child laborer and starving to death.

[–] millsey72 (10283) 7 months ago

No one knows

[–] davodikum (6197) 7 months ago

The village was thriving before the rock was stolen.

[–] Heretic (326) 7 months ago

Was it?

It was a shithole with clay houses and the only way to reach it was several days by elephant.

[–] strntz (12254) 7 months ago

It was a shithole with clay houses and the only way to reach it was several days by elephant.

One person's shithole is another person's palace.

They were happy before the stone was stolen - that's all that matters even if where they were living is a shithole.

[–] Heretic (326) 7 months ago

No, one man's shithole is another man's shithole. I mean it in the literal sense that they were shitting in a hole in the ground.

The Palace in the bigger city is where I'd want to live. Not some poor, inept, dirt farming village that forces kids to work outside all day.

[–] biffleberries (70) 4 months ago

At the start the one guy said that when the rock was stolen from them, a great darkness came over the village. Plus when Indy brings the rock back and the children at the end, you can already tell the difference in the color of the village. The plants are already blooming again.

[–] Martoto (5036) 7 months ago

Are you really stupid or really deaf? Or both?

The only other explanation is that you're really bad at this trolling with a fake argument thing.

[–] thingmakersback (1373) 7 months ago

Yeah, but good enough at trolling to attract you and davodikum (millsey is special and exists beyond trolling). Let's just ignore this crap.

[–] Martoto (5036) 7 months ago

Inviting critiques of your attempt at trolling isn't what good trolling is.

[–] thingmakersback (1373) 7 months ago

Nobody said it was good... I'm getting a bit tired of this "Look I'm taking a perverse approach to some familiar element of a beloved film". Y'know "The Empire were the good guys in Star Wars" or "Sauron was just fighting in support of misunderstood Orkdom". These can all be interesting thought experiments, but presented as they are, they are simple minded trolling.