Neptune

I’m sorry this version is bad and you’re all being very childish about analysing it. Shel Silverstein’s children stories are not happy. They aren’t meant to be happy. Not only does this version completely butcher the tone, it erases what makes Silverstein’s stories stand out to children. At the end of The Giving Tree there is no happy ending. There’s no legacy. There’s no happily ever after. There is a sad, tired old man sitting on a tree stump. The story flatly interjects “And the tree was happy.” at every juncture. The point of The Giving Tree is that at the end none of it mattered. The boy denied the tree asking him to do the thing that made him happy as a child. He does this a few times, in favor of money, and a family. The tree gives him a means to these things, but they ultimately don’t make him happy. The boy returns sad the third time. He wishes to escape. He takes the part of the trunk with the heart he carved for him and his lover but leaves the heart he carved of him and the tree. The final time he is only tired. He’s not happy. He can’t even do the things that did make him happy. There’s just an old, tired man, and a tree stump. It’s sad. It hurts a bit, for a lot of reasons.

“The average prison sentence of men who kill their women partners is 2 to 6 years. Women who kill their male partners are sentenced on average to 15 years. This is despite the fact that 86% of female offenders kill in self-defense, while males are most likely to kill out of possessiveness (82%), abuse (75%) and during arguments (63%). Women are eight times more likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner.”

"why would urban supercities depopulate?" plague, obviously