First, I like the term e-zombie. It highlights the issue of “sim rights” vs “human rights” for me.
Second, I don’t quite get the point you are trying to illustrate with this convoluted example. Is it that sims are intrinsically valueless or what? I don’t see how this follows. Maybe some calculation is in order.
The weirdest of Weirdtopias, I should think.
Not by a long shot. Pratchett has weirder ones in every chapter. For example, Only You Can Save Mankind.
Second, I don’t quite get the point you are trying to illustrate with this convoluted example. Is it that sims are intrinsically valueless or what? I don’t see how this follows. Maybe some calculation is in order.
It’s that if sims that have less copies—are less “real”—are worth less, for the reasons presented above, then the whims of the many are worth more than the lives of the few, or the one.
Not by a long shot. Pratchett has weirder ones in every chapter. For example, Only You Can Save Mankind.
Speaking as a Pratchett fan who’s read pretty much everything he ever wrote, although it’s been a while since I read OYCSM, I don’t understand this. Ankh-Morpork is a weirdtopia, and so are a few other things he’s written, (eg the “tradition as dead voting rights” bit from Johnny And The Dead,) but I don’t recall anything like this. Maybe I’m just being an idiot, though.
First, I like the term e-zombie. It highlights the issue of “sim rights” vs “human rights” for me.
Second, I don’t quite get the point you are trying to illustrate with this convoluted example. Is it that sims are intrinsically valueless or what? I don’t see how this follows. Maybe some calculation is in order.
Not by a long shot. Pratchett has weirder ones in every chapter. For example, Only You Can Save Mankind.
It’s that if sims that have less copies—are less “real”—are worth less, for the reasons presented above, then the whims of the many are worth more than the lives of the few, or the one.
Speaking as a Pratchett fan who’s read pretty much everything he ever wrote, although it’s been a while since I read OYCSM, I don’t understand this. Ankh-Morpork is a weirdtopia, and so are a few other things he’s written, (eg the “tradition as dead voting rights” bit from Johnny And The Dead,) but I don’t recall anything like this. Maybe I’m just being an idiot, though.