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Name: Entrapta
Date: oct 16th
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HELLO! I WANT TO COLLECT SOME DATA.

IF YOU HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT ETHICS, PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1] ARE THERE ACTIONS YOU CONSIDER UNACCEPTABLE REGARDLESS OF CONTEXT? IF SO, PLEASE PROVIDE EXAMPLES

2] ARE THERE SOME MITIGATING CONTEXTS THAT RENDER OTHERWISE UNACCEPTABLE ACTIONS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU? IF SO, PLEASE PROVIDE EXAMPLES

3] IF A PERSON HAS PERFORMED AN UNACCEPTABLE ACTION, WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER AN APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT?

THANKS! 8)

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1. its never okay to abuse or enslave anyone
basically any time youre exerting your power over someone its not okay
taking over the world obviously isn't a good idea
2. not any of those big ones
but like tons of things that are legally wrong are totally justifiable
murdering someone in self defense or stealing food bc ur poor and capitalism is bunk
3. depends on the context obv
if u did anything in one life in prison or any situation where ur not gonna hurt anyone is best
killing them if theres really no other choice??? but that's more heat of the moment self defense

[Why yes, he's had lots of thoughts about what is morally right recently, why do you ask?]

WHAT IS 'CAPITALISM'

if you don't actually know what it is youre lucky
its this dumb system where people need money to get the basic necessities for survival and shit
and because we need them so bad people who have lots to spare price them high enough that the people who need it dont mind working soul crushing jobs just to afford it
its a flawed system because its easy for assholes to exploit it and for people who really need the help to just end up in a worse situation
rich get richer, poor (ironically, including that one poor kid named rich) get poorer

Edited 2019-10-28 23:00 (UTC)

OH I SEE! THAT DOESN'T SOUND GREAT. WE HAVE MONEY WHERE I COME FROM BUT I NEVER USED IT UNTIL I CAME HERE SO I DON'T KNOW ALL THAT MUCH ABOUT IT

how did you not use money?
was it like ur parents paid for stuff?

I GUESS YOU COULD SAY IT WAS KIND OF LIKE THAT SURE! THEY ARE DEAD BUT I INHERITED THE KINGDOM OF DRYL FROM THEM AND THE KINGDOM BASICALLY TOOK CARE OF ALL THE STUFF I USE MONEY FOR HERE.
AFTER I LEFT DRYL THOUGH PEOPLE STILL PRETTY MUCH JUST GAVE ME ALL THE STUFF I NEEDED, I GUESS BECAUSE THEY WERE INTERESTED IN MY RESEARCH

[Hmm. Rich aristocrat. It sounds like she's more like Jake though, in that she was kind of abandoned and left on her own... and probably a little bit ignorant of what her status meant.]

sorry to hear about your parents

it sounds kinda like capitalism was a thing there too
but at least u got that research grant or whatever it was
what exactly were u researching

IT'S FINE IT WAS AGES AGO

I WAS RESEARCHING A BUNCH OF STUFF!
THE HORDE WERE REALLY INTERESTED IN MY RESEARCH INTO THE ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY THAT PERMEATES OUR PLANET THOUGH

uh
what the fuck is a horde
i mean that doesn't sound threatening at all

OH THEY'RE KIND OF LIKE... A KINGDOM? I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THEIR POLITICAL STRUCTURE EXACTLY, I KNOW THEIR LEADER IS THIS GUY HORDAK BUT I HAVEN'T TALKED TO HIM MUCH. THEY SHOWED UP A LITTLE WHILE BACK AND THEIR TECHNOLOGY IS WAY MORE ADVANCED THAN ANYTHING ELSE I'VE EVER GOTTEN TO PERSONALLY WORK ON, IT'S BEEN REALLY FASCINATING TO STUDY!

THE PEOPLE I USED TO WORK WITH, THE PRINCESS ALLIANCE, ARE I GUESS FIGHTING AGAINST THEM, BUT THEY'RE REALLY NOT VERY THREATENING OR SCARY. I THINK A LOT OF THINGS THAT SOUND THREATENING ARE JUST MISUNDERSTOOD

thats kind of weird
like why do you think they're fighting against them?
you must know if you used to work with them

what do you think theyre misunderstanding?

I DON'T KNOW, THEY NEVER REALLY DISCUSSED IT I JUST FIGURED I'D HELP BECAUSE I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING WITH THE HORDE FOR EVER I GUESS BUT I DON'T REALLY PAY A LOT OF ATTENTION TO POLITICS

[This girl seems like she might be getting taken advantage of. That's... rough. Rich isn't exactly sure he can say anything to convince her, especially since he doesn't know for sure, though, so he'll try to let it go.]

i mean as long as youre making an informed decision
paying attention to politics might be a good idea before taking a stance on that kind of thing

IT'S OK I DON'T REALLY HAVE A STANCE ON IT
MY ONLY REAL ALLIANCE IS TO SCIENCE!

i guess i get that?
as long as youre using science to help people?

WELL, A LOT OF MY RESEARCH COULD BE USED FOR THAT, SURE

you dont exactly seem to be worrying about that

IT'S NOT USUALLY MY MAIN PRIORITY BUT I DO END UP HELPING PEOPLE SOMETIMES!

idk for someone who was asking so much about ethics i kinda assumed that was your priority

NO THE ENTIRE REASON I MADE THIS POST IS BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS SUBJECT

but then why do you want to learn about it?
id think you'd wanna learn to be a good person

NORMALLY THIS KIND OF SUBJECT DOESN'T INTEREST ME AS MUCH AS MOST OF MY OTHER AREAS OF RESEARCH IF I AM HONEST
I FIND A LOT OF IT REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND AND STUFF LIKE ENGINEERING AND MAGITECH AND COSMIC PHYSICS IS WAY MORE INTERESTING!
BUUUT I WANT TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THIS STUFF BETTER MAYBE SO THAT I DON'T UPSET SOME OF MY FRIENDS OR DRAW NEGATIVE ATTENTION THAT WOULD DISRUPT MY RESEARCH BY DOING THINGS CONSIDERED CATEGORICALLY "BAD" BY A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE

i guess those are valid enough reasons
i mean i started trying to be less bad because of my own friends
i didnt want to hurt them anymore

it was kind of a complicated situation but thats still not an excuse for what i did so

OH
YES.
I THINK THOSE KINDS OF SITUATIONS ARE USUALLY COMPLICATED.

IN WHAT WAY WERE YOU HURTING THEM?

a lot of ways
i mean mainly by beating the crap out of them and saying a bunch of awful things
theres kinda reasons for it but not excuses

eh i guess youre a scientist so youd wanna know
tldr i had an evil supercomputer in my head and it lowkey abused me and highkey brainwashed me