• nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      Kind of. In that episode the soldiers were actually mind washed, and saw victims as literally monsters. And yes, they had intercourse with someone from their imagination (I think), for their better mental health(?).

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        9 months ago

        IIRC the programming not only made them see the undesirables as literally alien monsters, they also had a whole simulated happy life going on for them.

        The episode ended with the protagonist being released from service going home to his nice home and loving woman, which is then revealed as still being part of the programming, showing him in peaceful bliss, alone in a wrecked, rotting poverty home.