I would personally say part of the trap of Undertale seems to have been the fandom. The fact that you *can* spare the monsters and get their point of view through great effort & sacrifice isn't the issue, the weird bit came in from the fandom arguing it is like a moral necessity?
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This is literally Tolstoy and Shakespeare Tolstoy, for whatever reason, specifically fixated on how much he hated King Lear And he thought the play made Shakespeare a *bad person*, that only someone with a "degraded moral sense" would set it up so Cordelia dies at the end
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I get it. I also think Discourse kind of encourages it, as does our own sense of hyperempathy. But it's a trap, right?
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…Given how many emotional responses I’ve been informed I have wired backwards (eg foff’s ‘almost everyone’s a little bit anti’ explaining why radicalization does the thing), for all I know I’m proof of the “[almost] all of us” for not having this one either, but
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"It is I, the suffering-imaginer, who has planted such thoughts in the heads of all!"
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