Thomas Shey
Legend
In the existentially horrifying sense that it may not exist?
Maybe, but more specifically in a p-zombie kind of way, where you can have something that is indistinguishable from having it, yet supposedly doesn't.
In the existentially horrifying sense that it may not exist?
Is this like the Star Wars thing where the droids are clearly intelligent, feeling beings but absolutely no one but Luke cares?
Why not create a race FOR the gender issue. Warforged have no gender, but unless memory fails me, they have no souls also.
The soul is not necessary. Warforged are more like a Roomba which is magically given a soul. Or a sentient magic item. They don’t have a positronic brain equivalent. They think because magic.You'll notice that I threw "IMO" in there. Of course what a soul is and its role can and will vary from setting to setting. I would say that claiming a soul is necessary for sentience is a more absolutist view than anything I said.
They fear death and actively seek to be freed from restraining bolts.Debateable how self aware they are.
If this was true, restraining bolts wouldn't exist.Most can't break ther programming. Basically means they're machines.
I'm pretty sure this is all an in-universe justification to ignore the suffering of a slave caste.R2 might be an exception idk in New canon.
And it’s kinda silly to be debating this when the Eberron books very explicitly state that Warforged do have souls.I love that a thread about comeliness and representation has evolved into a multi-page discussion of whether Warforged have souls. Sometimes discussion drift is frustrating, but this one is kind of delightful.
They fear death and actively seek to be freed from restraining bolts.
There's some in Mandalorian that drink to forget.
If this was true, restraining bolts wouldn't exist.
And some of them have independent jobs with no one in command of them.
I'm pretty sure this is all an in-universe justification to ignore the suffering of a slave caste.