Recreational multiplicity

So you'd like to hear my thoughts on "recreational multiplicity; cultivating a benign voluntary dissociative condition... like a trance channeler or a performance artist who gets into character to perform. Or a role-playing gamer."

You are describing the way many people see their dicing. In fact, "recreational multiplicity" might be a good definition of dicing.

And you are perfectly correct when you write: "recreational role playing can be fun for a stable personality but can provide a circumstance that permits and encourages the development of a conceptual framework that supports and endorses frank deviance, malice and deception; even in contravention of the exclusion of such indulgences by the core personality."

You are particularly on the nose when you say that role playing can be fun for a stable personality. One's stable personality must encompass multiplicity, inconsistency, pretending, faking it. If one has a strong core personality that is single and has a core of beliefs and ethical habits then I think it is hard to do much role-playing.

Every personality has a different set of morals so if you have multiple personalities you have inconsistent and contradictory morals. But I think far more harm is done both to the individual and to the world by holding on fiercely to a single set of morals than is done by those breaking the normal moral codes in their multiple role-playing. "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself" -- both in thought and actions.