Talk:Gods/@comment-4407082-20141025223309/@comment-162.40.239.147-20150103195253

Are they all about balance? Are they, really? Where, exactly, do you draw that from? At what point does KC state that they are trying to maintain some sort of all-important balance that all of creation depends upon?

Nowhere. You apply that reasoning because it's the best you can think of, but nowhere is it stated. Thus, the motivation of the Chief God remains an unknown. You might think she's trying to maintain a balance. I, on the other hand think that she's just a malicious, spiteful bitch. Only KC knows which of us is correct, if either.

We're equivalent to Sims, are we? Really? Are Sims functionally sentient? Do they have real thoughts and emotions? Are they a functional AI, or even a VI? Would they pass a Turing test, or at least come close? No? Then we are not equivalent to Sims, which are neither real nor even vaguely resemblant of intelligence of any sort. They are quite literally incapable of any sort of thought. They are pixels, 3d models, and 3d texture maps completely controlled by a larger program. They can not think, they can not learn, they cannot evolve independantly. Literally everything they do is the result of programming.

We are capable of thought and emotion. We are capable of development, learning, growth, and adaptation. We do feel, and we do express true emotion. That makes us well and truly sentient and thus alive, even if that intelligence were of artificial origin. Sims are not like us in the least.

To contrast, everything KC has revealed about his Gods suggests that they are actually not so very far removed from humans and mamono. They appear to have similar emotions and thought processes. The primary difference appears to be magnitude of power and/or ability to affect the world.

Basically, then, you're arguing that might makes right. And as a general rule First-World nations have long since discarded that idea as a societal whole, though we do still tend to acknowledge that strength-of-arms is necessary to defend ourselves.

In other words, your entire argument falls apart.