ToothlessS
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
Exargna:I copied MY comment to write you both an answer and a review of the chapter. You didn't specify your answer when you answered the previous person. You just mentioned "lego parts", now you're trying to prove that the main character "doesn't understand" what he did, but he understands everything perfectly, especially after the "void" test. He realized that any slightest choice in life or even a banal thought completely affects the personality. You just didn't try to describe the situation with Joel in any other way, I know those people whose families died and they tried to commit suicide, but survived it thanks to the support of friends or with the help of their will. The above is a manifestation of laziness when writing the plot, you wanted to show the choice of the hero, not caring about logic, you only showed how the hero is looking for "easy" ways so as not to bother talking and supporting his friend. Do you think that people are unchangeable? Another ephemeral stupidity, you even contradict yourself, a person changes every second, every choice affects absolutely everything, let people not notice it themselves, but others will immediately see changes in their friend. You did not support your point of view in any way, you simply stated that my words were allegedly a "hypothesis".
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.
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.