> In article ,
> "GeneK" genek_hates_spammers.com> wrote:
>

>> "ToolPackinMama" comcast.net> wrote...

>>> I believe it was stated outright and shown that no "pain" there, not
>>> even death, was real...at least not for the androids. Even the
>>> death of real people wasn't real, as we were shown.

>>

>> You have to wonder where the lines are drawn, if anywhere.
>> If someone arrived with a desire to experience a lifelong
>> fantasy of being Jack the Ripper or Torquemada the Grand
>> Inquisitor, would the planet manufacture the necessary
>> setting and characters, or would there be a loud "bzzzzt,"
>> accompanied by a couple of automated bouncers...

>
> I want to know what happens if the tiger gets you. Does it shred you
> to gobbets and eat the gobbets, and then they fix you up good as new?
> If so (and I consider it likely, if Don Juan is chasing women with a
> dagger and airplanes are making strafing runs and knights are
> impaling people) then Jack the Ripper shouldn't be a problem.
>
> The caretaker says:
>
> "If you would use the proper caution,
> this amusement planet could be an ideal place
> for your people to enjoy themselves..."
>
> not to mention
>
> "Anything that pleases you can be made to happen."
>
> I doubt that any lines are drawn regarding individual fantasies.
> You'd think there'd be rules where one person's fantasy impacted
> another person that wasn't willing, but given that McCoy was killed
> by Barrows' knight, I'd say there aren't; Scotty should be able to be
> Jack the Ripper all he wants.