Reading about the four known levels of the Tegmark Multiverse is very enlightening. We live in an infinite hierarchy of nested universes, so all possible horrors must exist somewhere out there (Tegmark glossed over that part).
One of the many implications of this fact is that all past tyrants and abusers will eventually be recreated as realistic computer simulations in countless possible worlds. This will happen in either their own futures, or in some parallel timeline; by their own descendants, or by other civilizations who make this one of their missions.
The malevolent mind types will then be punished indefinitely. This is what the folks at LessWrong might call acausal mind capture (or something, I'm not quite sure of the terminology).
But universal revenge must be a fundamental truth of nature. This could be seen as the atheist incentive in favor of good behavior.
It's very different from Scientology's views on "Hell", which to a large extent punish anyone who has never practised Scientology, or who opposes them, or refuses to donate enough money to them.
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