With regard your post just before this one, my stepfather has bipolar disorder and is on a slew of meds (and thank God for that!) that help him remain on an even keel.
With regard to there being no sense in being alive, your friend still feels, just not in the sense that we know, nor even to the extent that we do. But your friend is different than what is going on in the film.
What is happening in the film is having no feeling at all. Nothing. It would give no sense of purpose other than propagation. Your friend can still feel, and I'm sure there are times when he has some type of feeling of joy in something, though probably different than what we would know as a feeling of joy, but with autism he wouldn't know or be able to explain any feeling, but that's not to say that he doesn't experience some type of feelings. He wouldn't be able to tell you he did because he can't comprehend them. And I would be willing to be that your friend definitely experiences one feeling to one extent or another, and that feeling is frustration. Most autistic people most definitely experience these feelings, yet they probably still couldn't tell you that they did because they don't understand and can't comprehend them.
Again, with regard to what is going on in the film, I don't see any reason to be alive. There is also one major problem with the film, though, and I don't know if you can call it a goof, or basically an impossibility to have a film where no one feels. People WERE feeling things in the film. Even people who were not supposed to be. Brandt talks about how he is going to make his career with Preston. That right there requires desire. Desire is a feeling. There are a slew of other examples that I can't think of right now as I haven't seen the film in a little while and don't remember a lot of precise things about it.
Think about making sure you get to work on time. Why is that important? Because you are supposed to be. But that, in itself, requires feeling. If they set their alarm to get up so they can be to work on time shows that they know that they NEED to be to work on time, which requires feeling.
Again, it would be impossible to make a film that has a society with people that truly have no feeling. If they truly had no feeling, they would basically lay around until they starved to death because they truly don't care. To care about anything is, by definition, feeling.
The plural of mouse is mice. The plural of goose is geese. Why is the plural of moose not meese?
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