I see little reason why it couldn't happen but I also see little reason for why it ever would. Said being would have to have something lose lose from not intervening or gain from intervening. Generally speaking, as a being gets more powerful and more capable of such intervention, its reason to intervene goes down as it would be unaffected either way.
Eventually all that would be left would be purely emotional reasons, and even then, if you then assume that life isn't the end, then who cares if millions "die"? This gets further and further exacerbated when you start talking about the idea of alternate realities, it starts to seem like life is kinda infinite and you can kill off hundreds of trillions of people and not really notice.
As real world example go, there's lots of random tribal wars and whatnot happening all over the world all the time, little regional conflicts, the big countries, the ones that actually matter, don't intervene in all of them. Because there's nothing to gain from it, There no resources they want, it's not a geostrategic location to put a base to protect/engage a rival, so who cares?
Now imagine an alien civilization that's figured out energy mass conversion, or a being with so much magic they can build their own universes. There's nothing here that they could possibly need. It gets to the point where people just have to, quite frankly, "know their place" and understand just how little they and everything around them matters given how weak they are.
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I probably should've also pointed out that all needs are really just wants, you only "need" food if you "want" to survive for example, and obviously there's some people in teh world who don't want that. making the entire thing that much more unlikely again.
Eventually all that would be left would be purely emotional reasons, and even then, if you then assume that life isn't the end, then who cares if millions "die"? This gets further and further exacerbated when you start talking about the idea of alternate realities, it starts to seem like life is kinda infinite and you can kill off hundreds of trillions of people and not really notice.
As real world example go, there's lots of random tribal wars and whatnot happening all over the world all the time, little regional conflicts, the big countries, the ones that actually matter, don't intervene in all of them. Because there's nothing to gain from it, There no resources they want, it's not a geostrategic location to put a base to protect/engage a rival, so who cares?
Now imagine an alien civilization that's figured out energy mass conversion, or a being with so much magic they can build their own universes. There's nothing here that they could possibly need. It gets to the point where people just have to, quite frankly, "know their place" and understand just how little they and everything around them matters given how weak they are.
::EDIT::
I probably should've also pointed out that all needs are really just wants, you only "need" food if you "want" to survive for example, and obviously there's some people in teh world who don't want that. making the entire thing that much more unlikely again.
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(This post was last modified: 2018-12-15, 07:18 PM by Mediochre.)