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Is it morally wrong to cause a fictional person to suffer? If you create a world and people of fiction is it immoral to make them suffer even though they only exist in the minds of you and your audience and not the physical world?
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why do you think suffering is inherently bad
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>morality
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fact: to exist is to suffer
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>>585827
>Is it morally wrong to cause a fictional person to suffer?
No, because your waifu necessarily loves it when you make her suffer: http://www.philpapers.org/archive/sinPG
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>>585886
But my waifu is real.
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>>585827
They're not real. That said, it would be amusing if every time you imagined something, it in some sense became real, since things like typing "imagine someone suffering" would mean that you made people imagine someone suffering, and now you're responsible for thousands of people suffering.
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>>587810
But don't some fictional characters have a bigger impact on the world for longer than real people? Does their effect on the real world not give them some credence?
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Amor fati
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>>585827
Is it morally wrong to fap to such dumb questioning one must ask....
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