Death universally seems bad to pretty much everyone on first analysis, and what it seems, it is.
How can you know? Have you ever tried living a thousand years? Has anybody? If you had a choice between death and infinite life, where inifinite does mean infinite, so that your one-billion year birthday is only the sweet begining of it, would you find this an easy choice to make? I think that’s big part of the point of people who argue that no—death is not necessarily a bad thing.
To be clear, and because this is not about signalling: I’m not saying I would immediately choose death. I’m just saying: it would be an extraordinarily difficult choice to make.
How can you know? Have you ever tried living a thousand years? Has anybody? If you had a choice between death and infinite life, where inifinite does mean infinite, so that your one-billion year birthday is only the sweet begining of it, would you find this an easy choice to make? I think that’s big part of the point of people who argue that no—death is not necessarily a bad thing.
To be clear, and because this is not about signalling: I’m not saying I would immediately choose death. I’m just saying: it would be an extraordinarily difficult choice to make.