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minus-squareGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 days agoIs corruption and addiction the same thing? Corruption makes you evil and act less humanely. If anything, an addict is more sympathetic and just lacks control. Also, an artifact or power that corrupts you is literally the opposite of something that everyone has and, let’s be honest, need for basic day to day tasks.
minus-squareChl0r0f0rm_Angel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 days agoTheElephantGraveyard has made some pretty funny and salient arguments for them being the same thing. The way he describes Tolkien’s Palantirs are as so stimulating and offering such a novel spectrum of reality that you don’t want to stop using them
Is corruption and addiction the same thing?
Corruption makes you evil and act less humanely.
If anything, an addict is more sympathetic and just lacks control.
Also, an artifact or power that corrupts you is literally the opposite of something that everyone has and, let’s be honest, need for basic day to day tasks.
TheElephantGraveyard has made some pretty funny and salient arguments for them being the same thing.
The way he describes Tolkien’s Palantirs are as so stimulating and offering such a novel spectrum of reality that you don’t want to stop using them