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Added 2022-02-10 02:11:25 +0000 UTCSuddenly, goblins!
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Case in point, the idea of violence in order to respond to frustration is appealing to me, and simultaneously appalling to my sense of ethics. As such, given a fictional situation where my ethics are no longer a concern because it's fictional, I am very much likely to entertain such things, if nothing more than as a pressure valve for my frustrations. The venting of frustration in fictional settings can be a window into the internal ethical decisions we make as to what not to do despite what may be our instincts. No one needs to decide to not kick puppies, so no one is never going to play "Puppy Kicking Simulator 2022". But people do have to decide not to give into road rage. And GTA 5 is one of the best selling video games in history.
Ohh Crap Guy
2022-02-15 10:12:55 +0000 UTCThe things we're ethically opposed to on principle are usually the things we've thought about at length, because we have to make those ethical decisions when it comes down to things that we might otherwise do in order to solve our problems.
Ohh Crap Guy
2022-02-15 10:04:02 +0000 UTCI have not once tortured someone to death, and, indeed, I find the notion of making a genuine, serious attempt of it nauseating. But that doesn't prevent me from having jokingly threatened it on occasion, or even discussed it happening to fictional characters. Fantasy is not reality. I would tend to think that being able to distinguish between them might be one of the key qualifiers for sapience.
Taellosse
2022-02-14 14:16:23 +0000 UTCI don't stab people in real life but my Bladesinger stabs a BUNCH of people in D&D.
Stephen Wells
2022-02-14 12:51:19 +0000 UTCYeah, but it's Golf. GOLF.
Jax
2022-02-13 14:40:49 +0000 UTCThe only problem with this comic is that Yay has previously said that respecting the mind was something that they are very firm on. No matter how annoyed they might be, I doubt they would ever try to do the R&D to develop that malicious nanotech. It's interesting that they, even in this fictional narritive, would entertain that thought.
Justin Seifert
2022-02-13 07:47:17 +0000 UTCSo good.
Zain Redding
2022-02-13 07:46:37 +0000 UTC
