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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 8:52 pm
I sometimes day dream about me solving the world's problems but the story is always different. It helps me relax and feel good. I don't know why. The last one I came up with was this scenario where I do this sacrifice choice and that's why I can solve the world's problems. I thought about the choice and how hard it would be, and remembered right now about this scenario I day dreamed about.
Are you sure you wouldn't do it? Think about it, you would be tortured but you would be a hero. You aren't being punished and there is no disgrace in it, it's just pain. But the pain would always be in knowledge that you solved the world's problems.
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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Can I have the long life, solve the world's problems and then sacrifice someone else to the torment?
Religious scapegoating: it's done in most religions, after all.
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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 8:55 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 8:53 pm)Beccs Wrote: Can I have the long life, solve the world's problems and then sacrifice someone else to the torment?
I so wanted to do that in Fable 2, but I didn't and my guy became old.
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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 8:58 pm
Not sure I would, to be honest.
Partially because, of course, the eternal torture thing, but also because what some people see as a problem is seen as others as not a problem.
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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 9:02 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 8:58 pm)Beccs Wrote: Not sure I would, to be honest.
Partially because, of course, the eternal torture thing, but also because what some people see as a problem is seen as others as not a problem.
You would be given a lot of knowledge though so you would have the wisdom to know what's really a problem.
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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 9:09 pm
Seems unfair that I have to have a crappy afterlife either way. I'll take whatever option means when I die I just die and that's all.
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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 9:13 pm
I would kick the balls of the cunt that would eternally torture someone for unfucking creation; presumably creation requires unfucking because of the said cunt's incompetence.
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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 9:20 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 8:12 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: The other choice is that you are given powers and so much knowledge and given ability to live for a very long time (like 30 000 years) and you would be able to solve all the world's problems with your powers and knowledge but the downside to it, is that once you die, you will be tortured for eternity. The torture will be severe as the severest description of hell possible. The thing is, there is no comparison with eternity. 30,000 years? Make it 30,000,000 and you'd still eventually find yourself surpassing that total ten, a hundred, a million... a trillion times, with no end in sight.
What exactly would "the world" have done that would make that trade-off worthwhile? I'd take the first option, and I'd take it twice if "heaven" is a euphemism for "Losty's bedroom."
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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 9:28 pm
The thing is - I wouldn't do it, but I wouldn't have anyone else do that either...
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RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 1, 2014 at 9:40 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 8:52 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I sometimes day dream about me solving the world's problems but the story is always different. It helps me relax and feel good. I don't know why. The last one I came up with was this scenario where I do this sacrifice choice and that's why I can solve the world's problems. I thought about the choice and how hard it would be, and remembered right now about this scenario I day dreamed about.
Are you sure you wouldn't do it? Think about it, you would be tortured but you would be a hero. You aren't being punished and there is no disgrace in it, it's just pain. But the pain would always be in knowledge that you solved the world's problems.
Yeah, but pain times infinite number of years outweigh solving problems leading to carefree existence that would last but finite number of years for a finite number of individuals.
Big finite number times big finite number is still infinitesimal next to big finite number times infinity.
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