- Start of Hope reacting to seeing Ellen

- "You haven't (hurt me)."

If going strictly by how applicable it is to real life, I'm not sure if the ethics of what Pandora did regarding her own reincarnation are worth debating. We can compare it to parents placing expectations on children, but it's a bit of odd as an allegory.

As one of those weird questions that comes up in fantasy and science fiction, however? Philosophical debate!

If you're going to reincarnate as a new person—possibly similar in nature, but minus all the nurture—is it ethical to pass along feelings the current you believe are important?

Do you have the right to do that to yourself? Does it matter that, in many objectively real ways, you'll be someone else?

Does the fact that it would still technically be you make it entirely up to you as you are now?

Please keep in mind that this is entirely fantasy "what if" nonsense (as far as I'm aware, anyway), so it's probably not worth arguing too hard about this.

Not that I'm even sure anyone's even going to discuss this, but figured I should at least try to get ahead of anyone throwing chairs at each other (or, more likely, using chair throwing text emotes).

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- Thursday EGSNP