2: They're not. They never were, and never will be. Yes, we as players got very deep and developed emotional connections with the characters and the world within the Canvas. But by any objective metric, these are not real people, these are fictional characters, made up by the imagination of the Paint𝐆ers.

If you think that erasing fictional characters to save even just one real person is morally wrong, you probab🐓ly need to check your moral compass.