It wasn't so much the stance as the reasoning that annoyed me. We all know that Bungie intends Reach to be its last Halo game, future projects to be under the control of 343 Industries. This guy was saying how Reach is the end of Halo for him because if it isn't Bungie's work, then it is not Halo. This bugs me. Bungie is only a label, for a whole collection of people who happen to come together in that moment of time with a common goal. Some of the original creative minds responsible for Halo left for 343, and seriously, how many people who worked on Halo 1 also worked on Halo Reach? I tried to track the actual people, but it turned out to be more effort than I was willing to put into this guy so I didn't find out, but I wager not a great deal of them. I proposed that eventually everyone who had ever would on Halo: Your Preference eventually moved to 343 or another company, perhaps one they hard started themselves. This is exactly the same as the Ship of Theseus now: is this new company Bungie? Is the old company still Bungie? At what point during this period did Bungie stop being Bungie or the new company start being Bungie? Are there now two Bungies?
This guy figured that if "Bungie" wasn't on the box, it's not Halo, and that I was a dumb philosophy fag or something. At that point I took my leave in case he was infectious.
The relevance to this conversation is that a thought experiment such as Ship of Theseus clearly has some relevance in today's world of corporate entities, and may go some way to explaining why the best solution many nation's laws have come up with is to make corporations themselves something of a legal entity on par with a human individual. This is problematic to say the least.
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