Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7841 - V is for Violence

Written by: Tanhony

Artists Include:

[HiveTyrant]

I think the real anomaly here was the fact that pre-empathy humanity was able to reach the post-industrial age at all.

[skjoldrodinson]

I feel like that was a really fun and unique way to use SCP 2000.

[moonlight_scribe]

This feels like a very satisfying answer to SCP 5000. The worst thing about that article was the open ended presentation as empathy as the presence of a parasite and a weakness where this article presents empathy as the only hope for humanity to survive.

[mortenrl]

I loved this one. I thought it was great how the "sociopathic" humans considered 7841's empathy an "inability to sustain vital functions for life, " since they would see their own predatory nature as the natural strategy. Everything tied together very nicely. Beautiful little tale.

[rileywiess]

God this is the crack fix I needed.

I recently became homeless after some absolute bullshit that I won't get into here, but I'm jobless because of it, living in a car that doesn't run.

The second I saw this, it started to drizzle rain.

It's about the small things.

[alexandercross]

Its worth noting that humans do have a high level of empathy, as evidenced by how much people need to go through to supress it these days.

[JLocke]

I think it's cool how the SCP is so willing to sacrifice itself for the benefit of people that they will never meet. Truly, they are a paragon of humanity.

[Chimpanzs]

We’re getting close to the end of these SCPs being posted everyday and I just want to say thank you TES ❤️

[hunter_]

Always gave me SCP-5000 vibes, that one.

It should probably be noted that SCP-5000 was also written by Tanhony.

[ivanpn]

What I always like about these articles is how humans are depicted differently in either nature, origin, evolution or even variation
Some of these have included
Scp 2004 - where humans are psychic reality benders having been put mental restraints
Scp 1788 - humans have not reach maturity of the adults
Scp 939 is implied to be a subspecies of human.
Scp 4275 humans in an alternate universe have shark teeth and eating habits
A subspecies of human homo ignotus having a natural antimemetic camouflage
Scp-5000 implies humans do not have any negative and positive emotions and should not feel pain and are soulless and innately immune to several anomalies.

[Iknowtoomuchable]

Even a world full of sociopaths eventually saw the need for empathy.

[rofflesvanwagon]

V is for valium of which i shall take 4 of tonight and turn into a jellyfish man

[FuttBucker]

May not be the most appropriate video for this, but I want to thank you TES, for the regularity and quality of these videos. I've been struggling with mental health on top of being busy from culinary school, and your content helps me to sleep at night so I can keep going.

[korydavid]

I have to wonder: Does this mean SCP 7841 was the first carrier of SCP 5000?

[kenpanderz]

"i have a selfish hunger for empathy. i have none of my own. i am not content with this poverty. i will eat your sorrow until i understand it. i *will* have empathy, even if i must make it from scratch." - the sociopath to empathy

[luckyhat]

This is a callback to such an old piece of SCP lore (that human sociopathy and propensity for violence has already been decreased by Foundation intervention and no further changes will be allowed). I really like it but it's basically a Tale moreso than an SCP.

[joeradford]

I disagree with all the comments calling this boring. Yes, it should have been a tale. However, I really liked the moments with the sociopathic people acting like sociopathic people. Like how they casually bet to see who would die for food, or how Baler sees no problem killing off the remaining humans for the new world.

[xTHIRDHORSEMANx]

My man never stops.

Definitely my favorite YouTube channel. I replay every video multiple times to sleep after watching them through.

Definitely the reason I bought premium

[ZealotOfSteal]

Honestly I really doubt if a species with no empathy would be capable of building a large scale civilization.
Our society is based on cooperation, which in large part is based on empathy.

[axelprino]

I liked this one, even if plausibility is particularly low in this case. Humans with no empathy whatsoever would struggle to survive, let alone thrive for long enough to develop a complex society, but perhaps these alternate humans were just extra lucky.