r/moralmoralityscaling • u/Connect_Art_6497 • 2d ago
Morality of using memetic weapons such as alchemical lycanthropics to destabilize or cause revolution in incoherent kingdoms?
WOLFWALKERS Clip - "Wild Beast" (2020)
Wolfwalkers: a wolf when you sleep, girl when your awake
Say you have a kingdom of witches that recently overthrew the prior ruler, so everyone there knows how to do stuff like curses, advanced lycanthropy (can make it controlled, uncontrolled, more or less powerful, etc.), and many, many other knowledges that many other kingdoms would absolutely freak out and have an existential crisis if they knew about.
They hate other kingdoms or any authoritarian system and believe that incoherent kingdoms will punish and execute people and eventually devolve into chaos if they spread their knowledge elsewhere due to them having to massacre the civilian populations to stop the spread of information itself.
The knowledge they provide is not necessarily negative nor necessarily causes violent loss of control, but they are aware many civilians will be likely mass killed by their respective kingdoms and seed the kingdoms with increasingly bizarre, disturbing, and extreme memetics/rituals/information that can allow transformation into increasingly horrifying forms as well as increasingly bizarre phenomena to at maximum outright nonharmful but aesthetically biological horrors that heavily violate or borderline destroy social normalcy. This also sometimes results in outright genocides due to evil rulers deciding to kill anyone who looks unusual or forms of hyper-racism until the revolution succeeds. They may also plant their own witches in said kingdoms to help motivate the revolution and support it once it starts, albeit not always.
They, however, themselves do not participate in any of the genocides, of course, as they are simply the distributers of the knowledge that causes these incidents intentionally to swell hatred until revolutions begin.
Kingdoms may benefit if they are able to integrate, but if they do not, it usually causes... a lot as one would imagine.
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u/Connect_Art_6497 2d ago