So we got all these varieties of apples that look and taste different but are still apples, right? We got red ones, kinda yellow/golden ones, and green ones, and sometimes they’re sweet, sometimes they’re sour, sometimes they’re more of a mix, but we still consider each one indisputably an apple
Now let’s say you go to another dimension and you ask for an apple and they give you something that they call an “apple” and it does taste like an apple, but it looks exactly like a banana, do you consider that an apple or would you mentally think about it as a banana that happens to taste like an apple?
Okay well what if they said they didn’t have anything called an “apple” but they gave you a fruit that looks exactly like an apple, like the default idea of what an apple looks like to everyone in your original universe, but they call it something completely different and you think it tastes a bit like an orange actually, is that an apple to you?
So now picture that you’ve asked for an apple and they give you something that they also call an apple and it looks exactly like an apple from your universe, but you bite into it and it’s not even a fruit, it’s like meat somehow, would you consider that an apple or would you be like “this can’t be an apple, this is meat!” they’d even tell you “of course this is an apple, just look at it, we also make apple juice with ours” and they show you a glass would you accept it or double down like “that’s not apple juice, that’s meat juice!”?
At some point across the universe depending on how one categorizes an apple, they may meet plenty of “apples” that other people might consider part of the apple family but to them it’s too different to be part of that category
So we have the omega device from RnM getting rid of Dianes across all universes and let’s say it doesn’t affect one Diane who’s called Diane and looks exactly like a Diane, has the same relatives that all the other Dianes have, but somehow doesn’t fit whatever category the omega device has made for what a “Diane” is
How badly would it fuck you up to be that Diane? To know you’re somehow not “you” enough?
