Eliezar, why do you say Buffy made the wrong choice? I’ve not seen the episode, but I read the summary, and it seems to me that Buffy couldn’t conclusively determine which world was real. But choosing to stay with the ‘hospital’ world would mean that, if she was wrong, her friends would die. Choosing to stay with the ‘Sunnyvale’ world would mean that, if she was wrong, she’d be hallucinating for the rest of her life. I admit it’s a bit like Pascal’s Wager, but it seems to me that picking Sunnyvale is more moral, unless you have a really good reason for thinking the ‘hospital’ world is actually correct.
Eliezar, why do you say Buffy made the wrong choice? I’ve not seen the episode, but I read the summary, and it seems to me that Buffy couldn’t conclusively determine which world was real. But choosing to stay with the ‘hospital’ world would mean that, if she was wrong, her friends would die. Choosing to stay with the ‘Sunnyvale’ world would mean that, if she was wrong, she’d be hallucinating for the rest of her life. I admit it’s a bit like Pascal’s Wager, but it seems to me that picking Sunnyvale is more moral, unless you have a really good reason for thinking the ‘hospital’ world is actually correct.