> that could maybe work but serious ethical discussions what ethical discussion? if you could choose to be perfect and act perfectly, never harming or causing distress to anyone ever again and never receiving it either, why would you not choose to do that unless you're making a conscious decision to be a piece of shit? you could exist in a world of infinite discovery, wonder, and fulfillment without ever being abused and carrying the conditioning that causes you to abuse others. you already do. we are spirits, like the needle of a record player, playing through the finite consequences of evil so we know what to do and not do. it is a finite succession of lives that stretches far beyond that of just a human, at the end of which one reaches enlightenment and the ability to cast off all desire to commit evil.   this isn't a failed creation, it was never created in the first place. it was an abortion that was intentionally terminated from reality before it could ever exist, and we are infinite spirits spending a finite amount of time exploring the consequences of what could have been.
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