The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
A pattern in last 4 books
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Talby16 on November 03, 2017, 05:17:27 PM ---Definitely could have worked, but I would not be surprised if Hades has built it so that the shade/ghost/spirit is immediately sucked away for judgement which would prevent its return to the body.
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I do not think so. The gates were not designed to kill everyone but to weed out those not powerful and versatile enough to wield the weapons they guarded. They were tests. There might have been something but it would not have been impossible.
A fire mage for fire, a winter knight for ice and a necromancer for dead, it would have been fitting.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: Arjan on November 03, 2017, 06:14:17 PM ---I do not think so. The gates were not designed to kill everyone but to weed out those not powerful and versatile enough to wield the weapons they guarded. They were tests. There might have been something but it would not have been impossible.
A fire mage for fire, a winter knight for ice and a necromancer for dead, it would have been fitting.
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Except those magics aren't exactly created equal.
On the other hand, we have an example of an ectomance binding a soul back into its body, so maybe there's a more benign way than necromancy.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Avernite on November 03, 2017, 09:21:11 PM ---Except those magics aren't exactly created equal.
On the other hand, we have an example of an ectomance binding a soul back into its body, so maybe there's a more benign way than necromancy.
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Oh maybe morty could have done something just imagine the scene Nicodemus trying to recruit him.
And harry is a necromancer as well.
Ananda:
--- Quote from: Mira on November 01, 2017, 11:13:51 AM ---
I don't think we can judge Harry or any parent saying that he or she would be willing to let the world burn to save his or her child. That isn't selfish, it is called being a parent... It was said at the height of frustration and emotion, only in Harry's case he possibly had the power to do it... The important thing is, he didn't do it and he found another way to save his child.
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I said that his attitude was not one that should be held up as the ideal for a society. Also, yes, letting the “world burn” for your child is the epitome of selfishness. As I said, though, I’d save my child first if I had to choose between him and a random child. But, who wouldn’t? Would I let the “world burn” for him, though? I hope not and, if I tried to, I’d hope someone would stop me. And, in my opinion, the important thing isn’t that Dresden didn’t do it (after the fact), but that he was willing to do it. That’s dark. The White Council might be right about Dresden.
An interesting tangent to this is how AI will choose the lesser bad in things like AI driven vehicles in accident scenarios; go straight and kill a child, a dog and a woman, swerve and kill three men and a woman. Does it just do maths? And, what about general or super AI? What types or moral dilemmas will it face?
Arjan:
Ah trolley problems. On one track are the millions of people I don’t know and on the other track there is someone I like......
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