I feel like "fucked up" is measured logarithmically. You've got Winnie the Pooh, and you've got fucked-up work A, and they form what feels like a complete scale from 1 to 10. Then you've got fucked-up work B, and it makes A feel like a 1 in comparison, so the new scale goes from 10 to 100. Then fucked-up work C is 1000.

I'm not sure how many levels it goes through, and I'm not sure where the top is as far as fiction. Maybe one of the Guinea Pig movies? I think any fiction is a 1 compared to some nonfiction, though.

What really interests me is trying to find the lowest 10. What's the least fucked-up thing that makes some people go "This is 10 out of 10 fucked up; it can't get any more fucked up than this?" E.g. some people have a very strong reaction to any mention of cannibalism.

It is really hard for me to communicate to other people that I don’t believe in the concept of earning food through work. Work needs to be done somehow, and giving food as a reward for it is a simple and straightforward way to organize society, but I don’t think a person who works is inherently “more deserving” than a person who doesn’t work. So for instance, I say “people shouldn’t be expected to do a job if a machine can do it just as well,” and people think I mean “people should starve if a machine can do their job.” Whether a machine does your job is irrelevant to whether you need food!