From: Louis Newstrom (louisnews@comcast.net)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 06:47:04 MDT
From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>
> Louis Newstrom wrote:
> > As a related analogy: Imagine a child on the railroad tracks gets
killed by
> > a train. Now imagine that an adult knew this was going to happen and
didn't
> > stop it. Would you say "the result is the same, so it doesn't matter"?
I
> > wouldn't.
>
> Utterly inapplicable analogy.
Ok. Maybe it wouldn't matter to the child, because it doesn't exist. What
about my anguish at the situation?
Suppose you found out you were in a simulation. And the programmers said,
oh the holocaust wasn't real. The suffering of women around the world
wasn't real. Injustice and rape of women wasn't real. None of that
matters, because it wasn't real.
Your concern, your anguish, and your hard work to change the world are very
real. Whether that world was real or not.
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