From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 21:30:28 MDT
>John W Haggerty (empresstheodora@juno.com) replied to
my earlier post on Sat Jun 15 2002 - 14:41:56 MDT
That sounds silly. Characters are just characters and
have no life of their own. >
Gee. THAT sounds logical. ;)
I think his point was that Rand's choice to kill off
"people" in her novels, which she had herself declared
to be an idealized projection of her view of reality,
logically reflected her own character - murderer.
Similar to the Christian view that a la Jimmy Carter -
"Lusting after a woman in one's heart" is just as bad
as actually commiting adultary.
What happens when - instead of novels - we create MUDs
with characters that evolve more and more toward a
versimilatude with real people, exibiting character,
apparent volition, deliberation, etc., as I described
in another recent post. (Could the gamers be the
actual route to true silicon intelligence?) When
these characters have bargaining power and start
demanding participation in the "REAL" universe, and
take out life insurance policies, THEN will it be
murder to kill them? At what point will it be murder?
(Hopefully this line will elicit more rational and
productive responses than the infanticide thread -
altho that was fun for a while, too.)
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