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Cake day: June 10th, 2023
  • BFrizzleFoShizzle@lemmy.nztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?
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    1 year ago

    Something I don’t often see people talking about this game is the ending, which probably had the largest effect on me of any game I’ve ever played.

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    Before I played Spec Ops: The Line, I was staunchly against suicide in all instances.

    The ending puts you in a situation where you’ve more or less committed genocide (or at least horrifying war crimes), for ultimately no real cause. There’s no solution to make amends, you can’t undo what you’ve done.
    It then puts you in a position where you can effectively choose to commit suicide.

    If given the choice, most people would go back in time and kill hitler. But what if you WERE hitler, and suddenly realized the true implications of your actions. You were responsible for the torture and murder of millions on innocent people, actions that are impossible to forgive. Would the moral and ethical action be to kill yourself? Even if doing so wouldn’t prevent further death or harm to others?

    That ending made me rethink my stance on suicide, the topic is far more complicated than I used to think it was. To this day, every now and again, I still think about the choice at that ending.

  • BFrizzleFoShizzle@lemmy.nztoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Record-breaking mountaineer denies climbing over dying porter on K2
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    1 year ago

    Someone shouldn’t say that mounting climbing should be banned for only a few deaths here and there, when you have literally any other sport causing more harm.

    I’m all for keeping mountain climbing legal, but I don’t think the logic behind this holds up.

    Russian Roulette has a far higher rate of death in participants than fishing, but probably results in less yearly deaths. By this logic, Russian Roulette should be legal because it causes less overall harm.

    Applying the same logic to your animal example - I found a study saying tigers kill on average 1-2 people in the US per year, less than 1/10th the number killed by cows. Does that mean people should be allowed to own tigers?