IdleRich
IdleRich
Ah nice, that seems very relevant to what I just said. I wasn't talking about morality at all either though merely the struggle between determinism and free will (or sometimes a probabilistic universe which allows neither).Have you heard of geasa? Apologies for wiki link, knee deep in lego & paints. Point is how multiple geasa fuck everyone given them (eventually). “If I do x, y will happen. If y happens, that opens up the monsters of z. There’s no way out.” Different from morality though.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geas
And I suppose now I've thought about it a bit more I'm talking about it in two ways
1. Explicit in the story when characters attempt to avoid their fate and assert their free will
2. External to the story but where the author struggles to create an interesting and surprising story within a universe that she/he has chosen to make deterministic. In fact there is also the inverse issue where there is a seemingly non-deterministic universe and yet the author has to explain prophecy (maybe the Bible is an example here).