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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8570112" data-attributes="member: 82524">Which brings us to the other reason for this trope: restricting implication.If you have a world where you can cheaply animate corpse bots into a viable manual labor force, society would be drastically changed by that. The living would become an artisan class, the world would be in the midst of an industrial revolution, knowledge would never be lost, but also traditions would never be broken, leading to an odd sort of progressive stagnation.And speaking as an author, authors don't want to put in that much work. So there has to be a reason that if this is possible people don't do it. Sometimes there's drawbacks, sometimes there's costs. And for the ultimate in lazy writing techniques... you just say it's dark and forbidden. Good enough for a pulp novel. Done and dusted.</blockquote>