A thing about tragedy people have trouble imagining is that you... literally continue to be the same person? Your brain doesn’t get scooped out and replaced with a tragedy-ready brain? You don’t like ascend, it’s still annoying if your underpants are uncomfortable and stuff
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Replying to @christapeterso
In the past I've related this to the intuition people have about the trolley problem etc that it's worse to cause suffering to people who aren't "already involved", it makes a difference if the one person the trolley hits was already tied to the tracks or not
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Replying to @arthur_affect @christapeterso
From any sensible moral standpoint this seems self-evidently monstrous to me but a LOT of people go through life with this sense that "Oh, you've already been through this kind of shit, you're used to it"
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