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Given that a player might feel a need to supply a considerable amount of emotional investment in her avatar(s) she might take them elsewhere never allowing them to die or become this transient in the first place. Anyway, permadeath is another kettle of fish. In RL, death makes Maslow's hierarchy irrelevant, as it does everything else. At least our avatars can 'try again'.
Do our avatars have a 'will to live' then? Do we allow them such luxuries? Or do they, uncaring, skip their physiological needs and head straight for self-realisation and enlightenment? Is this a case of taking RP too far? Or do our avatars provide handy shortcuts for our own desires to reach self-realisation?
Keep it coming.
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