Rules:

  • History of the world before your birth remains the same; only events happing after your birth can be changed.
  • The other version of you must still be alive, you cannot go to a world that you are dead in. (This essentially forces you to murder/abduct your alt-self, so travelling has a ethical cost to it 😉)
  • There may be other multiverse travellers out there

(Btw, is it ethical to murder an alternate version of your self? Is that even murder or just self-harm technically?)

  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    41·
    17 hours ago

    No, I watched Dark Matter (the 2024 show)

    This prompt is based of it (its not exactly how the rules are in the show, but I modified it to increase the ethical dilemma)

    what happens after they die in their universe if I cannot exist in it without them?

    If they die, they just die, you can still leave, but you won’t be able to go back there again, neither can any versions of “you”.

    There can be unlimited number of “you” in a world, but that can cause issues with the world. I mean, think about it, the authorities are gonne be like “WTF” since you never had a twin on record. And problems go even further if there are like 3, 4, or 5 versions of you existing in the same world. The world doesn’t care, but like, the authorities are gonna put you in a blacksite and run experiments on you. I mean, unless you can find a world where the other “you” doesn’t care that you have the face as them, and just poped out of thin air and there is no birth record of you.

    I mean, if another version of me just appeared, I’m gonna feel threatened and probably kill him for self defence (so he doesn’t get ideas to try to take my place).

    Edit: Unrelated, but the 2015 Dark Matter is also great, whole different premise, and its also interesting to watch.

    • november@lemmy.vgEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      I mean, if another version of me just appeared, I’m gonna feel threatened and probably kill him for self defence (so he doesn’t get ideas to try to take my place).

      If you’re the kind of person who sees an alternate version of yourself and jumps immediately to killing in self defense… then yeah, it’s probably a good idea to kill your alternate self in self defense.

      • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        Lol, its kinda like a dilemma.

        If you are an absolute pacifist, you all live.

        If you are a war mongerer, many of you will die, perhaps all of you will.

        If you are like 50% pacifist 50% violent, the 50% of universe where you are a pacifist will get absolutely destroyed by the other 50% violent "you"s.

        But, I can’t be sure. If there is even a chance of them being the evil ones, I’ll have to give up any shred of pacifist ideals that remains in me and just go total “kill or be killed” mode.