(As a warning, this post contains spoilers to the Episode 7 "The Majority Rule" of the TV series The Orville .) I started watching The Orville a week or two ago. I have seen up to episode 7. In this episode, there is a planet with a culture that evolved to be very similar to Earth's. In fact, the dominant species on the planet looks identical to humans (partly, I believe, to save on budget costs for make-up etc). In this society, we learn that every person is given a badge at age 18 and they must wear this badge at all times. The badge has two buttons--one upward-pointing green arrow and one downward-pointing red arrow. When a person does a good thing, another person might press the green button as an "up-vote", to express approval. When a person does a bad thing, one might press the red button as a "down-vote." This is clearly inspired by sites such as Reddit that allow thumbs up and down voting on posts. At one point, one of the crew me
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