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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This one gets more complicated the longer I think about it.

My first pass was to imagine humans just as we are aside from the ability to die. Many things about how humans are don't make sense without death though. Pain, for example likely evolved to cause organisms to avoid stimuli that could lead to their death. Fear largely derives from the anticipation of pain. Would true immortals have either? I imagine the psychology of such creatures would be vastly different from our own.

There's also the question of what form the immortality takes. If it's possible to destroy someone's physical body, but their soul can immediately manifest a new one, and pain doesn't exist, then doing so is just an inconvenience. If bodies are impervious to any damage or alteration, a large category of crimes vanishes.

It would probably come down to some sort of long-term imposition on the freedom of others, but it's really hard to guess what that would look like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Torture, kidnapping.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

No death? As in you can't die from old age or you can't die no matter what happens to you e.g you're throw into the sun, you don't die? Or your physical body can die but that just means your game is over in one universe and you can move into the next, and so on?

If being thrown into the sun can't kill you, then you're invulnerable and torture can't be a thing. You could be tossed into deep space and not hit anything for a million years, but you could learn how to cope after a few years and make your brain a retreat of imagination.

If it's just games all the way up into eternity, being the game creator and making pain exist is an unforgiveable crime.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In my opinion killing is pretty bad but there are other crimes that can be worse, so not sure what point you are trying to make

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Death doesn't mean killing. You can die by an accident (falling off a ladder). You can die from a heart attack. Death just means dying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Then even more to my point. What difference would it make?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
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