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A Boring Dystopia
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Yeah wtf has her God got to do with freeing her lol
I'm not religious and I don't agree with the train of thought but I would think it's probably something akin to "god sent these people to help me"
That's evolution for ya.
Even some non-human animals can develop superstituous beliefs.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
You got my attention, now I'm curious. What animals do that?
B.F. Skinner had a paper called "'Superstition' in the Pigeon". This page gives a summary.
Awesome, thank you for the read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber