Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?
by loafer-project on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:26PM
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> To the ego self that
> previously existed and
> previously suffered.
> Is it OK to torture someone
> as long as you make sure to
> kill them afterward ?
In this view the ego self existed before, but only in so far as I exist as the character in a novel, while I am reading it. So I would say yes, it is OK to torture a fictional character if it makes sense in the context of the story.
In this view the ego self existed before, but only in so far as I exist as the character in a novel, while I am reading it. So I would say yes, it is OK to torture a fictional character if it makes sense in the context of the story.