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Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors

Very Bad Wizards

The Imagination of Revenge Causes the Act That Ends Up Being Avenged

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She could not not kill him after being so fully and thoroughly dishonoured aso an talk about it like if what she's doing is some sort of precommitment strategy to make sure that she was properly in the mental state to shoot a man. But, like, there is also this weird kind of reverse causation, were, like, the imagined act of revenge causes the act that ends up being avenged. She imagines killing him, right? Like, that's the goal, is to kill him and bring justice to her father, avenge her father. Then that leads her to do something that is the thing that actually motivates her to kill her dead. The idea of revenge

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