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"Would you still love me if I was a worm" (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Smart man: "of course babe"

Me: "wait in this hypothetical were you always a worm or like turned into a worm by a wizard or something? Cuz in the first scenario I doubt we'd ever meet, unless I was also a worm. In the second scenario, would you have the cognitive abilities of a worm or would you retain human sapience somehow, even though that's not physiologically possible as a worm. If the former, would you really still be you, materially speaking? You've been reduced to the brain function of a worm, I'd say as a human you're functionally dead."

Anyway I'm sleeping on the couch tonight.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone told me "she's never going to be a worm, but she really will get her feelings hurt if you say no." I think of it like Games Done Quick charity marathons where you can either donate to save the animals in a speedrun of Metroid Fusion during the final sequence when the planet is blowing up or save the frames by ignoring the animals instead. In my head, you save the frames because they're real while the animals are not. Circling back, her feelings are real, the scenario is not, so it seems optimal to meta-scum the answers that maximize her happiness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seems like a good idea until you meet someone who's happier when they know the truth than some comfortable lie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

A comfortable lie? About being a worm? What - are you going to go "so you'd love me if I were a worm but not if I'm a landlord? Woooooow..."

Seems like a game of "first one to think deeply about this question loses."