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Soul Manipulation
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This was discussed in depth at one point. I'd like to post the thread here:
https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/297788
I think they would since it's not outright said and due to verse equalization.
https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/297788
I think they would since it's not outright said and due to verse equalization.
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The general consensus on that thread was that for soul attacks not to work (or in other words for there to be assumed to be no soul) a character has to be explicitely stated to have no soul.
In fiction and also otherwise souls are not necessarily connected to religious concepts.
For example in To Aru Majutsu no Index a soul could be created by scientific means and it was stated that one could find a scientific method to destroy it.
There are also philosophical views that argue for the existence of a soul outside of religious things.
For example one counter-argument made on there being no free will since the brain entirely works on physics, is that there is an non-corporeal part of the conciousness that doesn't have to work like physics and that it is there that the free will of the human resides.
This non-corporeal part could be called a soul and would in our senses be equalized to be that same thing.
Some religious views could potantially also work without afterlife, for example one were a person just instantly reincarnates on earth the moment they die, without there being an afterlife to go to.
In fiction and also otherwise souls are not necessarily connected to religious concepts.
For example in To Aru Majutsu no Index a soul could be created by scientific means and it was stated that one could find a scientific method to destroy it.
There are also philosophical views that argue for the existence of a soul outside of religious things.
For example one counter-argument made on there being no free will since the brain entirely works on physics, is that there is an non-corporeal part of the conciousness that doesn't have to work like physics and that it is there that the free will of the human resides.
This non-corporeal part could be called a soul and would in our senses be equalized to be that same thing.
Some religious views could potantially also work without afterlife, for example one were a person just instantly reincarnates on earth the moment they die, without there being an afterlife to go to.
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the problem with souls is that not everyone in real life believe in them. Therefore if nothing about them is ever mentioned in a work of fiction those people will assume that there aren't souls (naturally of course).
I believe that for the sake of verses matches that if souls are never mentioned then it is fine to assume that there are for the simple sake of verse equalization, for when the opponent has soul manipulation. The same would go for spiritual energies, chi, aura, chakra or whatever else you want to come up with.
Now about afterlife.....just because there's no afterlife doesn't mean there's no souls. I don't want to create controversy so I'm simply sticking to fiction and how the rules of verse equalization should be applied.
I believe that for the sake of verses matches that if souls are never mentioned then it is fine to assume that there are for the simple sake of verse equalization, for when the opponent has soul manipulation. The same would go for spiritual energies, chi, aura, chakra or whatever else you want to come up with.
Now about afterlife.....just because there's no afterlife doesn't mean there's no souls. I don't want to create controversy so I'm simply sticking to fiction and how the rules of verse equalization should be applied.
