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TheDag  Per Aspera ad Astra  2yr ago (text post)   2187 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 11, 2022

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Not really, no. People still have morals about things even if they are in pure survival mode.

Uhh.. maybe. Sometimes. But having sex with willing teenagers you haven't brainwashed isn't particularly heinous and I have very serious doubt about 'morals' in survival mode.

I played some 'survival' games and let me tell you that shit is very much Game of Thrones level of pragmatic immorality.

Few people reject a strong ally even if they knew he was cheating, you just took care not to be in the blast radius when mods wiped them.

(Then you'd donate them resources so they could start up again and become strong once more)

Really the only thing that was unforgivable is a reputation for treachery, and there were pitiful outcast groups whom everyone wanted to murder on sight.

Apart from that you don't care if they're eating babies as long as they're not your babies.

If the choice comes between being allied to baby-eaters and extinction, people always pick the latter one because we're desecended from a long line of survivors and you can tell yourself you can settle accounts with the loathsome but useful baby-eaters later anyway. Some day.

A species can tank a few gene-defectors. And they can pass on some interesting memes that have surprising effects on cooperation. Consider, for example, that one guy who died 2 thousand years ago and is known for that.

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