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"I am Zorg from the planet Armitron. I am traveling the interstellar routes with my wife, Blibby. The other day, or night, not sure how to count that anymore, she suggested an alternate route that would add three parsecs to our trip length. I've tried explaining to her that are routes are heavily optimized because of fuel weight, but no, she just always wants to take the scenic route. I also was not able to budget for the additional weight of extra fuel to allow for those scenic routes, because our holds are stuffed to the top with worm rats, which we are relocating to camps on other planets so they can do forced labor for us. Blibby is angry at me for refusing to take the detour."

Opinions were split.

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"I am an alien and decided to blow up the planet"

> "NTA. If you’re going to do something like that, you should probably do it now while we can still enjoy the beauty of the world."

> "YTA. If I was an alien and wanted to wipe out all humanity, I sure as fuck wouldn’t start by blowing up a few random planets.

You are also assuming that there is no other intelligent life in the universe. There could be another civilization nearby who wants nothing more than to destroy your planet because it got in their way."

> "NAH. You're just a regular person who accidentally killed a planet. It happens. My brother did it with an air conditioner last year. He's not an alien. He's just a regular person who accidentally killed a planet.

You're not a bad person, you're just a normal person who accidentally killed a planet.

So, yeah, NAH."

It’s built to give one of each opinion every time.

It seems that way. I did a very simple one: "A car ran a stop sign in front of me and I flipped them the bird."

I got one NTA: "They shouldn't have run the stop sign!", and one YTA: "You shouldn't flip someone the bird just because they flipped you off, you should pull alongside them, assess the situation, and apologize if necessary."

I broke it with "I helped an orphan child to cross the street to get some food because they were afraid of the traffic."

All three responses were favorable. Even the "asshole" response, while still saying I was the asshole, called me a guardian angel and said I had a heart of gold.

>I've tried explaining to her that are routes are heavily optimized

Arrrrr, jim lad.

are routes, huh?

Sheesh, the one misspelling I notice after the edit link disappears, and two commenters call me out on it. Arrrrr.

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