ToothlessS
Changing one detail leads to consequences, experience embodies a person's personality, changing some details of this "experience" will cause differences and changes in the personality as a whole. Now Joel is no longer his friend, this is another emotional pawn for the hypocrisy of the protagonist. The fact that he did this shows that the main character will continue to decompose as a person, I wouldn't be surprised if he forces his mother to accept immortality. The fact that the author can't figure it out on his own disappoints me.
You think I don't know that? MC himself ain't himself (fully) after the void merge. A part of him changed forever. And that change leads him to believe "What if I change just a tiny portion about another? I am different from the past but it never affected me much." That mentality leads him to make choices that he doesn't think would affect him or others which is often wrong. It's not that he doesn't care but is ignorant that the small change can change the being. But that's only ethically. Reality and memory manipulation changed a portion of his friend but theoretically, it's still the same person. Fear of losing a person makes someone overlook an issue and in this case, he thought of keeping Joel alive instead of letting him die.
Ah, so now he plays god with his friends and family and slowly spirals into controlling their lives. Cause obviously deleting a part of his friends' memories is literally deleting his old friend. Memories and experiences make a person and to just delete those, even if painful is just wrong, he literally has just made a new 'person' as a friend now.
his friend was having a hard time I understand but just brainwashing him to feel good feels out of line with your mc. He is supposed to consider it family but if he did it with him, will it be the same with his mother or Peggy? It is not that he is against it but I do not want you to justify his actions so that later he becomes a hypocrite. it is better to have a clear and solid way of thinking