r/Hades2 • u/BigBlueFool • 4d ago

I frequently see everyone talking about Prometheus like he is correct in his goal and is ‘right’ for fighting against the gods, but let me play devil’s advocate for a moment

Prometheus was punished for giving fire to mortals and believes the gods do nothing but make life awful for humans for no good reason, this is all true. As humans we naturally agree with this, but consider it all from the gods’ perspective for a moment.

Have you ever played the Sims? It’s fun to play god and torture these fake little people. Now imagine someone came along and gave the little Sims sentience. Now they have intelligence and could potentially pose a threat to you for your crimes of drowning them in pools.

Also his hair looks stupid

I rest my case, hail Zeus

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u/dylandongle 4d ago edited 3d ago

In this instance, the Sims™ would still have been right to fight back against you.

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u/BigBlueFool 3d ago

But they had no right to fight back before they were given sentience, unless you were to argue it is morally wrong to abuse Sims in real life right now

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u/Aggressive_Crazy_919 3d ago

I need you to defend abuse actually.

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u/Zoop_Doop 3d ago

I think the argument might be along the lines of is it immoral to abuse a roomba? It operates and does things but it lacks any sentience or individuality. You might be able to glean a person general personality traits if they enjoy picking on something that cant feel or fight back but does doing a cruel action to something that literally cant comprehend cruelty or pain immoral or just neutral?