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Chapter 269 Seeing a Deeper Game from the World of Warcraft

1. Alsace is facing people who will become undead, but they have not yet become undead, they are still ordinary people.

2. Undead zombies are very powerful in combat. Killing undead will make Alsace pay a higher price and cause more casualties of people and soldiers.

3. People infected with the plague are about to mutate, and at the same time, these mutants will attack innocent people who have not mutated, making innocent people become undead soldiers.But time was tight, and Alsace had no time to identify who had eaten the grain one by one, let alone send the residents to the magician for magical treatment.

Well, imagine, if you were Alsace, what would you do?
In the open class Justice of Harvard University, there is a very similar thought experiment: the trolley problem.

Five innocent people were tied to the tram tracks one by one, and an out-of-control tram was driving towards them, which was about to cause a tragedy, and it was too late to save people.

Luckily, though, you can pull a lever to make the trolley go onto another track.

The problem, however, is that the lunatic also tied a man on another tram track.

Considering the above situation, should you pull the rod?
The opinions of the students present were roughly divided into two schools:

Some people think that it is worth pulling the lever, sacrificing 1 person and saving 5 people.

But the other faction feels that the man who was tied up alone is innocent, he would not have died, and if you pull the lever, it means you murdered him!

This has led to two tit-for-tat academic views—consequentialism and absolutism.

Take this trolley puzzle and bring it to Prince Arthas.

As a prince and commander, casualties are a cold number for Alsace—if he doesn't slaughter the city, how many people will become undead, how many people will die, and how many casualties will be caused to my soldiers?
If we were Alsace, would we kill civilians with a heart of stone?
Or do I wait until the plague breaks out and the civilians become undead, and then my comrades fall one by one in the battle with the undead?

The grains had just been distributed. Maybe many citizens ate the old grains instead of the contaminated grains. So maybe there were only a few infected citizens?
If Alsace is sure that only a small number of citizens have eaten the food, then only a small number of citizens will become undead, and in the case of a small number, the army casualties will be very small.

So whether Alsace will continue to slaughter the game?

The strongest paladin, Uther, said that he would find other ways, and Jaina, a talented girl mage in Dalaran, also said that she could seek help from the mages of Dalaran.

If the Light of Uther, or the mages of Dalaran, have a way, even if it is only a glimmer of hope, then how should Arthas choose.

Or Alsace understood that this was a trick played by Kel'Thuzad and the Lich King, and the purpose was to irritate himself and make himself blinded by anger, so how would Alsace choose?

If Alsace did not massacre the civilians in time, allowing the civilians to become a large number of undead soldiers, causing Alsace's own army to suffer heavy losses, then what if the Alsace soldiers were dissatisfied and questioned this?
As us who have God's perspective, we have added many conditions, many possibilities, and after many analyzes, we can make a possible optimal solution with sufficient information.

But in the real world, we don't have God's perspective, we are all in the fog, we see very few things, and what we see may not be real.

When faced with major choices, one wrong step is the abyss!
The dilemma faced by Alsace is too complex, too diverse, and has too many possibilities.

There is no standard answer for what Alsace should do.

Whether he massacres the city, escapes, organizes an ambulance, or seals off the city, there will always be something to lose.

Why is Feimeng's "Warcraft" fascinating?
Because this plot can withstand deep polishing and scrutiny, it is not the product of the designer's brainstorm, and it is not the setting of various BUGs in online novels-such as killing white blood cells with AIDS, and the white blood cells are dead. Treating Leukemia…

The Stratholme massacre in "Warcraft" is a plot of the game, and behind it is the debate between two major western philosophies.

The excellent plot of "Warcraft" can withstand people's discussion and deep digging. The more we understand this game, the more exciting the plot of the game is, and we want to think more, so as to learn more about the connotation of the game.

For example, with regard to the philosophical relationship between humans and the undead, we can also explore a topic in a deeper level.

That is, in the world of "Warcraft", what is a person?
Is it race?Or individual independent thinking consciousness?

Native aborigines such as humans and elves are naturally humans, including trolls and naga, creatures that are considered monsters by the alliance, and they are also "humans."

This is not controversial.

Orcs from alien planets are humans, so are the demons of the Burning Legion from alien planets also humans?
Arthas slaughtered humans who would become undead, probably wrong, and much blamed.

Then let the Alsace military control the city, gather all the citizens, and the soldiers will stand by and wait for the plague to transform.

Then, at the first moment when the citizens become undead, they will be chopped down immediately to eliminate the undead.

This should be no problem, morality is absolutely correct, right?
But later, in the campaign plot, we saw that Sylvanas rebelled, broke away from the control of the Lich King, and led a group of undead who regained their independent consciousness to form a new force-the Forsaken.

These Forsaken, were killed, resurrected, turned into undead, changed appearance and body.

But with the passing of the Lich King's power, they regained consciousness, but are they human?
Will there be moral pressure to slaughter the Forsaken?
All of these are deep-level game plots that are worthy of our digging and thinking.

Feimeng's shaping of the role of Arthas can be said to be one of the pinnacle representatives of the game industry, and the massacre of Stratholme is one of the key nodes in the fall of the prince of the Holy Light into the abyss.

In the Stratholme dilemma in Alsace, it doesn't matter which choice is right or which one is wrong.

However, for the prince, the fact of massacring the city has been suppressed in his heart.

Alsace knew that he had slaughtered civilians, but Alsace thought he was protecting more people, even saving the world.

In order to take revenge, and to prove that he made a correct decision, Alsace gradually became crazy, trying to achieve his goal at all costs.

Until the end, he fell to become the number one general under the Lich King's banner-Death Knight Arthas.

(End of this chapter)