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[tinyfood]

Name: Entrapta
Date: oct 16th
Format: text

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)

Comments

[notawriter]

Yes.

[tinyfood]

THEN I'D LIKE TO SEE BOTH!

[notawriter]

1. Yes. It's unacceptable to kill people while aspiring to be a writer. It's similarly unacceptable to force an aspiring writer to kill people.
2. For both cases, no.
3. In the former, one loses the right to become a writer if that person even had it to start with. As for the latter, that is punishable by a suitably vengeful death.

[tinyfood]

THIS IS INTERESTING... WHAT DOES BEING A WRITER HAVE TO DO WITH IT?

[notawriter]

One man told me that to write a story is to write a person. One who takes lives cannot write about lives.

[tinyfood]

WHY NOT?

[notawriter]

To write a story is to write about a person, and how that person should live and die. A murderer has no right to do that. To force an aspiring writer to kill is to take this right to write away.

[tinyfood]

HMM. I STILL DON'T THINK I GET IT. COULD YOU EXPLAIN HOW DO THOSE TWO THINGS CORRELATE?

I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT WRITING BUT I WOULD FIGURE SOMEONE WHO HAD SEEN SOMEONE DIE THEMSELVES WOULD HAVE BETTER EXPERIENCE TO WRITE ABOUT SOMEBODY DYING.

[notawriter]

Seeing someone die is one thing. Taking a person's life is another thing. Similarly, there's a difference between writing about life and writing about death—one must have observed life to properly write about it. Murderers do the very opposite of observing life.

[He doesn't want to say he knows from experience, but he very much does.]

[tinyfood]

I GUESS I JUST DON'T SEE HOW KILLING SOMEONE MEANS YOU CAN'T ALSO OBSERVE LIFE.