Comment on Altered Carbon

kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• drislands@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Optimistic of you to think people wouldn’t use it as an excuse to be even MORE discriminatory. There would be Ultra-Whites who could claim they were never non-white in the past X years, with seniority by how far back they can trace their reincarnated whiteness. And of course there would be new religions claiming that if you follow them you’ll be reincarnated into the race/environment of your choice.

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe. I just thought it was an interesting opportunity to put the “veil of ignorance” to the test.

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  • duffman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Odds are you aren’t going to be reincarnated as a white person though. Seems like they would cut the shit out the first time they are reincarnated as something different.

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• Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Suicide would be an epidemic.

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  • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone will reroll for better stats

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  • Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty sure that would result in negative karma, and thus the new reincarnated form would be even less desirable.

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    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There was no indication that karma or any such system was included, you included that into the scenario and it is therefore invalid.

      There would be people racing to get to the simplest organism incapable of sentience if there were a karmic system.

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      • Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s what the basis of reincarnation is about though… karma. You do good deeds, your karma level goes up, you get a better reincarnated life in the future. Likewise, the opposite is true as well.

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    • bob_lemon@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The word “desirable” in the context of human-only reincarnation opens a whole other can of worms

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    • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like what, a paramecium or baker’s yeast or something? At least I can’t have a collection agency coming after me then

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on what version of reincarnation we’re talking about.

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