Before I say anything else, a couple of quotes from Pratchett’s Night Watch:
‘You haven’t killed your wife,’ he said. ‘Anywhere. There is nowhere, however huge the multiverse is, where Sam Vimes as he is now has murdered Lady Sybil. But the theory is quite clear. It says that if anything could happen without breaking any physical laws, it must happen. But it hasn’t.[...]’
“He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew … then it was too high.
It wasn’t a decision he was making, he knew that. It happened far below the levels of the brain where decisions were made. It was something built in. There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn’t be Sam Vimes, anymore.”
And that, basically, is it. We are who we are, and our minds, our personalities, our very natures, our sense of morality and aesthetics… you cannot simply swap them out without changing who we are.
Being human, and being you-in-particular, entails certain ways of looking at things; morality is part of that. Is morality part of reality, then? It’s part of you, and you are part of reality.
Before I say anything else, a couple of quotes from Pratchett’s Night Watch:
And that, basically, is it. We are who we are, and our minds, our personalities, our very natures, our sense of morality and aesthetics… you cannot simply swap them out without changing who we are.
Being human, and being you-in-particular, entails certain ways of looking at things; morality is part of that. Is morality part of reality, then? It’s part of you, and you are part of reality.