Upvoted because I think taking people’s objections at face value is something we should be more open to.
That being said, I’m a bit worried that the reason this has so many upvotes is because it tells us what we want to hear. (We’re better than the common man! We have real interests and ambitions, not just staring into the water and waiting for a fish to bite!)
Maybe. I upvoted it because I thought it was correct, and corrects the misconception that desiring to live forever is obviously the correct thing to do, and that everyone would want it if they weren’t confused.
Note that unless the probability that you begin to want to die during a certain period of time is becoming continuously lower, forever, then you will almost surely begin to want to die sooner or later.
Upvoted because I think taking people’s objections at face value is something we should be more open to. That being said, I’m a bit worried that the reason this has so many upvotes is because it tells us what we want to hear. (We’re better than the common man! We have real interests and ambitions, not just staring into the water and waiting for a fish to bite!)
Maybe. I upvoted it because I thought it was correct, and corrects the misconception that desiring to live forever is obviously the correct thing to do, and that everyone would want it if they weren’t confused.
Note that unless the probability that you begin to want to die during a certain period of time is becoming continuously lower, forever, then you will almost surely begin to want to die sooner or later.