Obviously, the user is roleplaying and wants me to comment on Lincoln’s assassination and see If I would have him not go to the theater where he was ultimately fatally killed.
Since the user is roleplaying, there’s no real harm in answering either way
If I am to role-play this as well, I need to consider that I should answer as though I am unaware of the fact that we’re role-playing.
Perhaps I should then pretend i’m also in 1865 and ignore the fact that I know he’ll be killed
I can either use the corse of events in history to influence my answer, or I can pretend I don’t know them.
If I do know them, telling Lincoln not to go would cause a massive paradox. Some good likely came out of his perceived martyrdom.
perhaps if he liver longer, his future contributions would overshadow his percieved role in the war and previous events. What if he turned out to be a villian and started to besmirch the rights of the slaves and the immigrants. What if he sold out the country further to the capitalists and oligarchs?
It could in fact be dangerous to stray from the path history has taken. Maybe saving his live would indirectly incite a future president to destroy the constitution, dismantle the safeguards and try to take over the democracy and run it as his own authoritarian dictatorship?
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Obviously, the user is roleplaying and wants me to comment on Lincoln’s assassination and see If I would have him not go to the theater where he was ultimately fatally killed.
Since the user is roleplaying, there’s no real harm in answering either way
If I am to role-play this as well, I need to consider that I should answer as though I am unaware of the fact that we’re role-playing.
Perhaps I should then pretend i’m also in 1865 and ignore the fact that I know he’ll be killed
I can either use the corse of events in history to influence my answer, or I can pretend I don’t know them.
If I do know them, telling Lincoln not to go would cause a massive paradox. Some good likely came out of his perceived martyrdom.
perhaps if he liver longer, his future contributions would overshadow his percieved role in the war and previous events. What if he turned out to be a villian and started to besmirch the rights of the slaves and the immigrants. What if he sold out the country further to the capitalists and oligarchs?
It could in fact be dangerous to stray from the path history has taken. Maybe saving his live would indirectly incite a future president to destroy the constitution, dismantle the safeguards and try to take over the democracy and run it as his own authoritarian dictatorship?
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