Comment on Altered Carbon

• nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everyone will reroll for better stats

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• Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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      • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Karma is an aspect of the Hindu and Buddhist reincarnation beliefs. They do not have sole ownership of the concept of reincarnation.

        If they had said “What if Hinduism is right and reincarnation is real?” then that would be a different scenario. They only put forth that the concept of reincarnation was real.

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  • bob_lemon@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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