 Originally Posted by LBT Petrie
I mean having a "relationship" with someone who doesnt exist could be very unhealthy.
 Originally Posted by AdamA
I wouldn't say so really, but to 'want' one you have to question the life they would live in order to actually feel they need or want this?
WARNING - Massive Analogy Alert - WARNING
Allow me to illustrate a pair of scenarios: a 7 year old boy wants very badly to see a specific movie, this boy has wanted to see this movie for many years, but his parents would never let him see it for some reason or another. This boy decides to download the movie off the internet and watch it for free, sure, it's not right, sure, it's not as good an experience as watching it in the theater or even on a TV, but it's better than never seeing it at all, he tells himself.
Now imagine someone who had never had a girlfriend; in fact, he never had anything even had anything close to a girl friend his entire life. In his freshman year in highschool, he starts playing an MMO, and after 6 months he finds that a girl likes him in the game, he is overjoyed. However, he soon realizes how pathetic the situation is that he likes a girl who isn't real. He decides to quit the MMO forever. In his junior year in highschool he still has never even talked to a girl or gotten within one foot of a girl and he decides that even if a virtual relationship isn't real, it's better than nothing. So he begins to play the MMO again, he finds the girl that once liked him, but she admits she never actually liked him, that she was simply "joking around". Well, at this point this man becomes quite depressed, and starts drinking, alone, by his senior year.
The comments that i quoted are entirely correct in 99.9% of all scenarios involving lucid girlfriends, however, i believe there are very clear exceptions to the rule. A downloaded movie is acceptable to use (at least morally) if no other means exist to obtain that movie legally (ie, the guy wouldn't have been able to watch it anyway). A lucid girlfriend is certainly not as escapist as an MMO, and not nearly as destructive as drinking, and if no other means exist, it is morally acceptable because the guy wouldn't have known love any other way. As you can see I like analogies :p this is just a really big one.
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