Posted June 17, 2022
It's amazing the moral debate brought by the game, how it compares advancements on how moral is considered on cultures separated by thousands of years.
I was very annoyed on how The Golden Rule was handled throughout the game, how bad ppl were able to do bad things and get away with it. The debate with Hades on the ending was great, because considering it as the "don't do to others what u don't wanna done to urself" is both simple and timeless, but at the same time it's too subjective.
What if somebody would wanna be killed if he'd do some kind of crime he considers impossible for him to attempt, would it be right to allow him to punish such crime with death?
And how different from slavery it is when a billionaire founds a bank and lends credit to somebody who takes half his salary to pay the monthly installment and takes 3 decades to pay? Of course, he's not a property of the bank or the bank owner and he's not tortured if he fails to pay, but still he keeps working a great part of his lifetime to pay it. And it also befalls on him the responsibility to find and keep a job, while a slaver assures job and food to his slavers.
I found myself unable to argue against the not punished bad behaviors we see on the game, for sure our modern civilization has a lot of errors, and in the end even Hades and Zeus had their misdoings too.
I was very annoyed on how The Golden Rule was handled throughout the game, how bad ppl were able to do bad things and get away with it. The debate with Hades on the ending was great, because considering it as the "don't do to others what u don't wanna done to urself" is both simple and timeless, but at the same time it's too subjective.
What if somebody would wanna be killed if he'd do some kind of crime he considers impossible for him to attempt, would it be right to allow him to punish such crime with death?
And how different from slavery it is when a billionaire founds a bank and lends credit to somebody who takes half his salary to pay the monthly installment and takes 3 decades to pay? Of course, he's not a property of the bank or the bank owner and he's not tortured if he fails to pay, but still he keeps working a great part of his lifetime to pay it. And it also befalls on him the responsibility to find and keep a job, while a slaver assures job and food to his slavers.
I found myself unable to argue against the not punished bad behaviors we see on the game, for sure our modern civilization has a lot of errors, and in the end even Hades and Zeus had their misdoings too.