This reminds me of the puzzle: why is death bad? After all, when you are dead, you won’t be around to suffer from it. Or why worry about not being alive in the future when you weren’t alive before birth either? Simple response: We just don’t want to be dead in the future for evolutionary reasons. Organisms who hate death had higher rates of reproduction. What matters for us is not a fact about the consequence of dying, but what we happen to want or not want. (Related: this, but also this.)
This reminds me of the puzzle: why is death bad? After all, when you are dead, you won’t be around to suffer from it. Or why worry about not being alive in the future when you weren’t alive before birth either? Simple response: We just don’t want to be dead in the future for evolutionary reasons. Organisms who hate death had higher rates of reproduction. What matters for us is not a fact about the consequence of dying, but what we happen to want or not want. (Related: this, but also this.)