Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-31763506-20190801005544

My take on the torture scene ATM is that it's less cut and dry morally based on my reading of Wendis's kill him quickly dialogue. "Fine! But I'm still dismantling his soul, and I'm not going to make it comfortable!" So it looks like some the gratuitous pain infliction is still there, what we're taking away is primarily the karmic retribution aspect, which could be argued to make it less moral.

SL could have leaned into the power imbalance between Wendis and Simon a bit more. "Oh, what are you gonna do, grab that guy who can stop me? What was his name? Michael Mc Doesn't Exist?"

Let me punch Jeremy Bentham some more to increase overall happiness and get back to you once I have a conclusion. (And let's not forget that Estaven was a child molester. I've considered parole preference for prison inmates who torture child molesters.)

I do agree that it's probably RP schmuck bait though.