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by perl4ever 2154 days ago
>People are not code

I have to assume that's a misunderstanding of something I wrote?

I was saying that pain doesn't follow anything like physical conservation laws. If I fall down the stairs and break my leg, that's not a thing that had to happen to anyone.

Statistically, a lot of people will hurt themselves in similar accidents every year until the end of time, but if I don't live in a house with a staircase, no cosmic law makes someone else get hurt to compensate.