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There's just too much pain (both physical and emotional) and too many diseases in the world. I refuse to believe that a higher entity (name it God or aliens) wo
by jakobdabo 5y ago
There's just too much pain (both physical and emotional) and too many diseases in the world. I refuse to believe that a higher entity (name it God or aliens) would create or simulate all those cruel things.
- ipaddr 5y agoIsn't disease another lifeform trying to survive? Isn't God responsible for all life? Why do you think your life is most important in the eyes of God?
- Igelau 5y ago> Isn't disease another lifeform trying to survive? Isn't Nurgle responsible for all life? Why do you think your life is most important in the eyes of Nurgle? Fixed that for you.
- adamjb 5y agoHave you ever watched anyone play RollerCoaster Tycoon?
- ethbr0 5y agoOr any of the 50%+ of our games sales that involve combat and/or death?
- jamiek88 5y agoI’d like to think if we knew those characters were sentient we’d act differently but...<broadly gestures at everything>
- ethbr0 5y agoTo be completely fair to humanity, most people don't get enjoyment out of the arbitrary anguish of sentient creatures. E.g. even animal fights are frowned on in most cultures, and bloodsports are now pretty heavily regulated (especially vs historical norms)
- cemerick 5y agoHave you never played SimCity or Populous?
- hnlmorg 5y agoOne of the big benefits of running simulations is to test horrible things in a safe and contained sandbox. The fact that each data point has become sentient is a byproduct of the level of detail in which this simulation is constructed.
- IAmGraydon 5y agoWhy do you believe that a higher entity would care at all about your suffering? Why would they step in and intervene? You’re projecting human qualities (empathy, caring) on something you know nothing about, but which certainly isn’t human.
- jakobdabo 5y agoThen why simulate the suffering, and especially why do that in all the sick ways that exist? Out of cruelty? Or sporting? Just choose a disease and go for a 10 minute Wikipedia rabbit hole. If cruelty exists in their world, then empathy and caring must exist too.
- andyana 5y agoI like to think that whatever happens here is insignificant in the big picture, and that's why bad things happen and divine intervention doesn't routinely occur. I can't explain why its insignificant, of course. It's like a hydrocarbon combusting in your car engine, and the rest of the little molecules wondering what kind of a monster could do that to them. We humans aren't even aware that it could be a problem.
- IAmGraydon 5y agoIf this is a simulation, it could have been “created” as a set of physical rules (which we perceive as physics). Everything that happens within it could have just evolved naturally from those rules. For example, maybe the Big Bang was the initialization of the simulation. Life wasn’t explicitly programmed into it, but it just happened after running the simulation for billions of years. Now that life exists, along with the pleasures and suffering that go along with it, this higher intelligence could step in and change it, but that would certainly corrupt the natural progression of the simulation.
- barrenko 5y agoYes, but if nothing really exists, then pain and drama are more than necessary (and kind of make even more sense). To borrow a few pages out of the ancient Indian playbook, creator was really bored with perfect perfection and invented a way to entertain himself, otherwise it's a huge bland perfect nothing forever.