Watching Firefly, as I often do, I am constantly coming across wise things I hadn't caught before. Or, stupid statist things that I hadn't gotten the significance of on earlier viewings.
One jumped out at me recently, when the Alliance goon said, in reference to the crew of Serenity: "Lowlife vultures, picking the flesh off the dead." As opposed to what? Lowlife thieves who eat the living with taxes and regulations, that's what.
The dead don't care if you take their stuff- they can't own anything. Funny that The State would supposedly find this more horrific than stealing from living owners- but you know they do.
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