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mwengler comments on Open Thread for February 11 - 17 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: mwengler 12 February 2014 04:01:07PM *  6 points [-]

I'm certainly comfortable with violent fantasy when the roles are acted out. This suggests to me that if I were convinced that certain person-seeming things were not alive, conscious, were not what they seemed that this might tip me in to some violent behaviors. I think at minimum I would experiment with it, try a slap here, a punch there. And where I went from there would depend on how it felt I suppose.

Also I would almost certainly steal more stuff if I was convinced that everything was landscape.

Comment author: hyporational 13 February 2014 09:59:16AM *  0 points [-]

In fantasies you're in total control. Same applies to video games for example. Risk of severe retaliation isn't a real.