Jean Baudrillard had a problem with simulation. He considered it a dishonest and unethical undertaking because of its intrinsic purpose to deceive. His reasoning compared simulation with dissimulation where:"pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the 'true' and the false', the 'real' and the 'imaginary'. Is the simulator sick or not, given that he produces 'true symptoms?" (Baudrillard, 1994, p. 3)
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