if souls and their attendant afterlife existed, it’d put quite a dent in the entire motivation for Harry’s “conquer death and achieve immortality for everyone” program.
Yeah, I worded that poorly. It wouldn’t put a dent in his underlying motivations (he would still love life, and no doubt be relieved at the news that the dead aren’t lost forever), but it would make his current ambitions to optimize this world a bit beside the point, if he also needs to concentrate on optimizing the next one.
Oh, quite the opposite!
Yeah, I worded that poorly. It wouldn’t put a dent in his underlying motivations (he would still love life, and no doubt be relieved at the news that the dead aren’t lost forever), but it would make his current ambitions to optimize this world a bit beside the point, if he also needs to concentrate on optimizing the next one.
Or did you mean something else?