BBEG motivation

Is it really so evil to send everyone's minds into a paradise? You see this crap everywhere

>hurr hurr but it isn't real!

Aaaand? How do we know anything is real? It doesn't matter

It's considered evil because it's done without consent. Fucking with somebody's thinkybits without their OK is generally 100% badwrong.

Is it really so evil to close off a part of land so they can be inhabited by a dying race? It hurts no one,

>hurr hurr but Humanity strong

"Humanity fuck yeah" is a mental disease. Humans and Non-humans are Equal

Evil? Maybe. The action isn't evil but the fallout from it is. You would have millions of people in a trance, oblivious to the world outside their minds, literally putting the world to a standstill, eventually leading to all of humanity starving and withering away, destroying civilization in one, non-violent, action.

>How do we know anything is real
Cogito ergo sum

How do I know you think?

Honestly, I'd agree with you, until it comes down to the wire. Gotta protect the species.

I'd say if I say I think, and you say you think, by and large we benefit more from just taking each other at each other's word I think that might be paraphrased from Pratchet You agree?
Honestly I think that is generally an argument that is pretty hard to win, that a perfect dream with no chance of death is inferior to real life, but I look at it as real life, by virtue of being an entire universe, is superior to anything designed to simulate a universe, and in reality you are depriving yourself of reality. Besides that, reality is where all the progress is made - if people live in a VR headset in perfection, then all progress stops, and I really don't think we will ever reach a point where we cannot progress, technologically speaking. Anyone else got a philosophy on this?

>You agree?
For sake of argument, no.
I can make my computer say it thinks. I can make a tape recorder say it thinks. Give me some time and I can make an integrated circuit hooked to a speaker say it thinks.
Does that mean they think?

If the continued enjoyment of this paradise is contingent upon the welfare of their bodies then neglecting them is evil, clearly.