Really? I don’t trust anybody in this thread or even this board with the button. I’m not sure which board member I’m most ideologically aligned with but I have no doubt they have posted a belief on at least one occasion that I found disturbing. As for those saying they would push the button, those are the ones I would trust the least.
I was being half facetious, but, yeah, I think I’d be okay with most people here pushing that button. I mean, I wouldn’t know the difference. Why would I care?
Having directly experienced how this forum treats those who dare to hold and express opinions that are very much out of line with the opinions of those who run this forum, I am not the least bit surprised that so many here would happily push that button. Assuming Cecil Adams is real (a matter, I understand, of some mystery), I wonder what he would think of this?
I, of course, would not push that button. I see freedom of thought and expression as near ultimate-human rights; and this button represents a hypothetical near-ultimate human rights violation.
So, if I have a neighbor that I find annoying, and am somehow able to get away with murdering that neighbor, can I similarly assuage my conscience by believing that I did not really murder another human being; that all I did was to transport myself to an alternate reality where that neighbor no longer exists?
No, they can’t change the new ideology. Within that ideology they are free to change their minds, disagree, and otherwise grow and change over their lifetimes.
I’m going to need to see some credentials from the many people in this thread who are so certain they know how magic works.
Good thing part of my ideology is that people have a right to defend themselves, regardless of which gender they are and regardless of which gender their attacker is. Which seems to solve that problem - if a woman attacks a man he can defend himself. But since part of my ideology is NOT abusing or harming other people except in self defense I anticipate they’ll be much less human-on-human violence if the button is pushed.
Also, I agree with
Which is why I ain’t pushing it.
Also I think the world’s way more interesting with diversity of thought.
It’s so hard for me to imagine a world without suffering I can’t even say for sure that what’s lost wouldn’t be somehow worse.
What if this is the best of all worlds?
That’s precisely why you shouldn’t press the button. There are few things more abusive than deciding for other people what their beliefs should be.
Yes
… and no. Nice try, Dexter, but the moral escape hatch only unlocks if you actually hit the quantum-eject button and pop into the “everyone-shares-my-values” timeline. The copy of you who materializes in Neighbor-Free Universe? Squeaky-clean. The version still standing over a corpse in this universe? Guilty as charged and about to discover how little weight “But, multiverse!” carries in court. Better have a good lawyer.