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donquichotte

So the inverse of the final scene in Patrick Süskind's "Das Parfum" is plausible?

1) collect women's tears from donations (kickstarter.com)

2) spread them as a fine mist at G20

3) world peace

Edit: maybe this is what Hugh Laurie was singing about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8chs2ncYIw

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Could create an unstable equilibrium where too much peace leads to a world wide lady tear shortage.

But then we can't have woman leaders. Only men and a steady supply of women tears and my guess is they'll create an OPEC for that miracle liquid ( which was never used to manipulate anyone, 100% )

> But then we can't have woman leaders

How did you reach this conclusion?

The whole exercise is facetious but in that world a woman leader would be all powerful. Immune to aggression-suppression by tear mist. She'd conquer all. Unless stopped by other women. The war would be total.

Wouldn't it mean that there will only be female leaders? If man could be suppressed by tears, they are not strong enough to compete with someone who can't be suppressed.

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