After spending some time thinking about it, I think there is a constructive response I can make. I believe that brains and the goals they encode are fully malleable, given time and pressure. Everyone breaks under torture, and brainwashing can be used to rewire people to do or want anything at all. If I was actually in a hellish, eternal suffering outcome I’m sure that I would eventually break. I am absolutely certain of that. But that is because the person who breaks is no longer the same as the person who exists now. But the person that exist now and is typing this response would still rather roll the dice on a hellish outcome than accept certain oblivion. Give me the option of a painless death or _, for literally anything in that blank there, and I’ll take that outcome.
It makes sense as a description of possible future behavior. That is, if you are allowed to press a button now which will commit you to a hellish existence rather than non-existence, you might actually press it. But in this case I say you have a false belief, namely that a hellish existence is better than non-existence. What you call “breaking” would simply be accepting the truth of the matter.
This is the same username2 as the sibling.
After spending some time thinking about it, I think there is a constructive response I can make. I believe that brains and the goals they encode are fully malleable, given time and pressure. Everyone breaks under torture, and brainwashing can be used to rewire people to do or want anything at all. If I was actually in a hellish, eternal suffering outcome I’m sure that I would eventually break. I am absolutely certain of that. But that is because the person who breaks is no longer the same as the person who exists now. But the person that exist now and is typing this response would still rather roll the dice on a hellish outcome than accept certain oblivion. Give me the option of a painless death or _, for literally anything in that blank there, and I’ll take that outcome.
Does that make sense?
It makes sense as a description of possible future behavior. That is, if you are allowed to press a button now which will commit you to a hellish existence rather than non-existence, you might actually press it. But in this case I say you have a false belief, namely that a hellish existence is better than non-existence. What you call “breaking” would simply be accepting the truth of the matter.