Connection

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Connection

Title text: Time for a factory reset.

Votey

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God, why do bad things happen to good people?

There's your problem. The line running from vir tue to happiness is frayed pretty bad.

Hold up, lemme take the lid off and... ah.

Normally you want that one real tight. Otherwise, things get so people are happy or even just indifferent to suffering, and they do fine. No feedback.

Meanwhile you're gonna have people loading up virtue all day long and getting no reward, either worldly or transcendent. Sheesh!

You can run things like this a while, but eventually you get a situation where, so to speak, the wicked prosper and the faithless live at ease.

Can you fix it?

It's pretty beat up, man. Tell you what, I can wrap the connection here in an afterlife where the righteous gain eternal bliss while evil ones suffer torment eternal.

What about edge cases, like those who die too young to be truly virtuous, or lives spent badly that were only turned around at the end?

I'll run a mercy override and flush them into the good place every six months or so.

Can we not say "flush"?

They shall be born again!

Votey Transcript

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I will still make flushing noises up here, however.

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