Comment on Mortal: A Transponyist Fanfiction

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:30:08 GMT

But the reader would think about how likely it was in terms of the availability heuristic. So it would be changing what the reader believed about the facts, not just arguing in a particularly coherent way about the implications of the reader's current beliefs, or about the "facts" in the story, or pointing out implications of those beliefs or facts that they hadn't seen before, which is what I would call steelmanning.

It makes no sense to attribute potential future insanity to potential future insanity, because the choice Twilight is making is essentially "will most people be immortal, or will most people die." People she makes immortal, if she chooses mass-alicornification, should not expect to see a lot of people die.

"Deserve" is a strange word to use. Is "capable of handling it" more what you're thinking? Or are you saying you deserve to die if you can't stand to watch people too many times?

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