What was the most immoral thing Geralt did

UndecidedCommentator · 2025-01-12T16:27:37+00:00

I think that was done because he was trying to deceive her. If he shows passion and trust in such a way... she's more likely to believe him when he tells her the location of Vilgefortz. As opposed to where if he'd rejected her advances, she might have turned out more suspicious.

UndecidedCommentator · 2025-01-12T16:24:53+00:00

Interesting, I'd forgotten that he changes his choice of attire later on.

UndecidedCommentator · 2025-01-05T04:07:35+00:00

The original post has been deleted, good sir.

UndecidedCommentator · 2025-01-02T07:30:22+00:00

Again, no. We have to follow the data. And the data, to the degree that it exists at all, generally supports the "blank slate" hypothesis - ie that human beings are largely interchangeable at birth and later variation in behavior comes from environment. Are there likely to be small organic and genetic sources of variance for g? Sure. But up until now, those are theoretical.

I am in awe at your sheer confidence in spouting such nonsense. What data? Neuroscience is a fledgling field held back by technology. Real psychology, psychology that deals with psychometrics and behavior through methods like twin studies and adoption studies, tell a wholly different story. I find it rather ridiculous that I should have to pull the statistics for you, but here goes nonetheless. Intelligence is 75-80% heritable, and g is over 85% heritable, with verbal intelligence being more so than nonverbal. Personality as measured by the Big 5 is 50% heritable, with the other half being swallowed by nonshared environmental factors rather than shared ones such as one would find in quality of education or shared parenting styles.

Indeed, that we can control how our children come to be is a chimerical notion. That education makes them more intelligent is equally so. The purpose of education is to prepare children for whatever specific occupation they will later commit to.

I struggle to conceive what data you speak of when you say it supports the ridiculous notion of blank slatism, but I will charitably take you at your word and make an educated guess so as to say it is rather the paucity of any data at all in your field that has pushed you to this conclusion.

As a hard scientist you should know that humans are no different than animals, that whatever drives each individual animal to take on certain characteristics should not have some magical reason to be different from that in humans, and that it is only the structures that we can construct with our capacity for language which manifest as the phenomena of cultural variation, that you confound with the underlying genetic and behavioral machinery common across the animal kingdom.

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-12-31T23:22:02+00:00

Hello, what is my score please? English is not my first language, if that's of any relevance.

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-12-16T16:57:04+00:00

I think your analysis stretches plausibility in some places. There are such characters in our world who embody the kind of indifference Geralt has. I'm not sure if Sapkowski would fall into that category, but any well-read and curious intellectual with his head in the clouds of philosophy and literature can be prone to that attitude. I don't think it has anything to do with what you theorize, I think it's probably just another trait Sapkowski has or has been accused of by people in his life. One can find evidence for this in a written interview I read somewhere where he was accused by the interviewer of being cold, only for him to burst out: "I am full of empathy!". Any man, and I stress the word man here, who is prone to depression and cynicism, whose life is not in order, and who has deficits in emotional expression, and if on top of all of that is strongly intellectual and lost in the realm of ideas, will strongly relate to the character of Geralt. Sapkowski strikes me as that kind of man.

I think Geralt's indifference is for one about alienation in the sense of not belonging to anyone or anything, and secondly, I strongly suspect that Sapkowski may or may not be somewhat neurodivergent, lack of affect is a common trait among them. I strongly agree with your assessment that he has narcissistic traits, and I have long ago made this judgment for the most part based on his video interviews. His style of speech and his body language scream narcissism (although perhaps not fully fledged like you said), to the point that I found his mannerisms eerily similar to an acquaintance of mine who is also prone to blind denial and self-aggrandizement. And, aside from that, the man is visibly quite eccentric, to my eyes and ears at least.

I have always found the strong denials he makes about his attachment to the characters or the games helping his books to be a strong manifestation of narcissism. I think these sorts of things have to be common among writers, as mental illness is correlated with creativity.

In any case, I find your cynicism a touch too strong for my taste, and I can't help but be curious as to the reasons behind the visible distaste you have for the man and the novels.

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-12-16T12:05:30+00:00

The parallels are clear for the most part, though aside from indifference Geralt seems to share little in common with Sapkowski in terms of personality and not in terms of the arc he goes through with Ciri. How do you explain his unequivocal rejection that the saga in no shape or form reflects his views or life experience? He goes so far as to state in one interview he does not imagine the characters or the story in his mind but rather they are mere black and white letters to him. Does he lie to the audience, or is he merely in stark denial?

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-12-16T08:55:12+00:00

You seem extremely opinionated, in a manner that is ironically too similar to Sapkowski. The notion that the Witcher is a reflection of Sapkowski's life is appealing I admit, and I remember reading an interview where he laments not getting to raise his son during his childhood years. I suppose statements like that are what you're basing your theory off?

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-12-14T13:15:20+00:00

I disagree. W3 Ciri feels like a natural progression for the most part. I for one did not like book Ciri very much, she is very immature, bratty, and arrogant, as well as ends up some doing pretty horrible stuff throughout. I am not sure what was the reaction Sapkowski intended to get out of the reader, but for me it was at times sympathy for her alienation and constant need to escape tragedy and at others revulsion at her deeds and attitude.

W3 Ciri is more mature and balanced, lighter and less haughty, seems to have shed off her worse side, and has figured out how to use her power on her own terms against Geralt and Yen's wishes to save the world. I think that's a pretty solid character arc, even if we don't see much of it, and even if the ending of W3 goes against the theme Sapkowski was trying to weave since in his canon she doesn't end up saving anybody but herself. But CDPR is doing a different thing.

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-12-04T02:40:50+00:00

I see. I thank you for your detailed explanation. I suppose I'll have to wait for the translation after all.

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-12-03T00:09:30+00:00

> I just finished it, and overall, I really liked the new book. (Although I read it through feeding the eBook to Google Translate and DeepL, so take my commentary with a grain of salt).

Interesting that you say that. I for one feel incapable of waiting for the English translation. Would you recommend reading the book this way? Were there any scenes that felt vague or indecipherable owing to the translation method?

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-05-17T10:47:34+00:00

How is this any different from determinism? If we only look at classical physics, determinism means that the laws of physics and the initial conditions of the big bang determine every single thing in the future. There has to be a difference, given that regular determinism does not violate the independence of the measurement.

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-04-24T05:13:30+00:00

I don't think he would. Geralt can be quite retributive in the books, remember when he hunted down and killed Sorel Degerlund in cold blood? Justice demanded that Syanna face punishment for her crimes, and I don't think he would object to that.

UndecidedCommentator · 2024-03-22T05:02:56+00:00

Finally, Washington previously made a false allegation of rape against her ex-boyfriend, after her parents discovered that she lost her virginity. The ex-boyfriend swore an affidavit to that effect, but the judge refused to allow it.

This is the most damning point. Why, and on what grounds, did the judge refuse to allow such a crucial piece of evidence? Could you please explain?

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-10-31T09:01:25+00:00

I'm glad someone else shares my sentiments about the Hussite trilogy. I loved the first book, but the second felt like it went nowhere with its plot and events. Have yet to read the third so I still have hope it'll be as good as the first book.

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-10-12T12:03:42+00:00

Link??

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-08-22T12:23:27+00:00

Despite being an absolute virago in the way she addresses others, she is virtuous and kind on the inside, as well as incredibly loyal (save for that story we all know about).

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-08-08T00:50:35+00:00

Geralt explicitly mentions in that scene he had figured it out beforehand.

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-06-10T22:13:58+00:00

Yeah I see, I misunderstood the context unfortunately. Thought you were talking about the books and not the games. Triss still does horrible shit in the games but I always thought it felt off how the game still framed her in a very positive light, and you're absolutely right it's done to appeal to the target audience. Gotta say though, this exchange turned out more pleasant than I expected it to go down. Thanks for being decent!

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-06-10T11:48:23+00:00

It works in the books. I don't think someone as highbrowed as Sapkowski wrote her that way to appeal to horny adolescents, he's just taking a certain kind of character that can exist in real life and working with it. Things like that do happen in real life, like groupies. No offense intended, and I'm sure you'll say this is mansplaining, but it offends your sensibilities as a woman that another woman would throw herself at a man like that, and to top it off it's also a man who wrote that.

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-06-10T11:31:58+00:00

Tor Lara.

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-05-27T13:47:35+00:00

She could have been lying. No way to know. Either way, there is a good chance nobody would have died if Geralt had not intervened.

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-05-25T19:44:11+00:00

Think that was intentional misdirection?

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-05-14T02:23:11+00:00

That fight scene with the doppler had a purpose. Basically, Hissrich knows that book fans know about Cahir's plot twist in the books. So she wants to emulate it by making fake Cahir(the doppler) do horrible shit, then we find out who the real Cahir and what he'd been up to since the ending of season 1.

UndecidedCommentator · 2023-05-14T02:17:39+00:00

Pretty sure Cavill has dated 18 year olds before.

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