Undertale as I understand it isn't about the weight of killing so much as "you have literally godlike power, you have the potential to go the extra mile to ensure everyone lives. Do you do so?" Which is an entirely artificial conceit with no resemblance to reality!
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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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Like how often has it been a plaintive wail of "why can't we be happy? Why must people like us in stories suffer and die? Isn't the real world hard enough?" And it's a totally fair cop, but it can also be a trap.
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And, like, it's a fair cop Tragedy isn't always good art, and a tragedy is always trying to say something about what the author sees as the rules of the world we live in, and you're allowed to hate that statement
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But if you just flat-out reject the tragic sense of life completely, you're in denial about something You're running away from truth, you're refusing to confront what is the fundamental basis, the definition, of *having a moral sense at all* to begin with
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