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16.45: World and Character Part 2: Moral Frame

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World Billy - The Failure Mode of the Human Race

When that is the failure mode of your society, a lot of things that would be completely immoral in any other situation become not only the right thing, but the responsible thing to do. And then that has a cascading effect on your characters goals and desires and attitudes and behavior. So when you've got these characters, and you're trying to figure out kind of where those moral gray areas are, you also want to think about what society, what their parent society, looked likelike. What are they rebelling against? And what did society look like when they were children? Like, what are they what is there their ideal of things were comfortable? That's part of world billy.

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