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    21 hours ago

    No death? As in you can’t die from old age or you can’t die no matter what happens to you e.g you’re throw into the sun, you don’t die? Or your physical body can die but that just means your game is over in one universe and you can move into the next, and so on?

    If being thrown into the sun can’t kill you, then you’re invulnerable and torture can’t be a thing. You could be tossed into deep space and not hit anything for a million years, but you could learn how to cope after a few years and make your brain a retreat of imagination.

    If it’s just games all the way up into eternity, being the game creator and making pain exist is an unforgiveable crime.

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      19 hours ago

      If being thrown into the sun can’t kill you, then you’re invulnerable and torture can’t be a thing.

      I disagree. there several forms of torture that don’t involve killing you

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        19 hours ago

        How do you hurt somebody who is invulnerable and doesn’t need to breathe? How do you torture somebody who can survive being crushed by the sun? Tickles?

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          18 hours ago

          I don’t think any of those mean they don’t feel pain. Or do we assume that instead of flash and bones they are made of steel or another metal?

          op didn’t mention invulnerability, though, just that they couldn’t die. if we agree that the question is about a human, we know there are several ways to torture without causing physical harm (e. g. waterboarding, or doing something with those who you care for), but physical harm also does not mean death in many cases

          if we don’t agree that the personis a human, or even that they are not a living being, I don’t know what to say but I think the point of the question was lost

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            18 hours ago

            The question posits that there is no death. If there is no death, then being thrown into the sun doesn’t kill a human. If you can come up with an explanation for that that doesn’t involve invulnerability, be my guest.

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              Because they get their invulnerability from rapid regeneration.

              Their flesh still burns, their bones still break, but they heal quickly, just to be burned and broken again.