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Here's an interesting thought experiment. Bit of a separate thread, so I'm looping it like this. It's easy to imagine a much worse world.

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Whether you subscribe to the idea of multiple worlds or not, this is a beautiful take on the concept from an artistic point of view.

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But can we also imagine that, compared with other possible worlds, our world might quite objectively speaking be hellish?

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We do not have nazi extermination camps, but we did have communist extermination camps. Still do, in North Korea.

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We may not have full-blown slavery to the state or global ubermensch/untermensch distinctions, but we have wage slavery and colonialism.

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Our "free" world is built on the daily suffering of millions. Imagine somehow films started showing up from a different, better world.

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What would you see? What circumstance of history or technology would it take to change our world into a truly better place?