>Our life could be eternal and thus have meaning forever.
Or you could be tortured forever without consent and without even being allowed to die. You know, the thing organized religion has spent millennia moralizing through endless spin efforts, which is now a part of common culture, including popular culture.
Let’s just look at our culture, as well as contemporary and historical global cultures. Do we have:
a consensus of consensualism (life and suffering should be voluntary)? Nope, we don’t.
a consensus of anti-torture (torturing people being illegal and immoral universally)? Nope, we don’t.
a consensus of proportionality (finite actions shouldn’t lead to infinite punishments)? Nope, we don’t.
You’d need at least one of these to just *reduce* the probability of eternal torture, and then it still wouldn’t guarantee an acceptable outcome. And we have none of these.
They would if they could, and the only reason you’re not being already tortured for all eternity is because they haven’t found a way to implement it.
The probability of getting it done is small, but that is not an argument in favor of your suggestion; if it can’t be done, you don’t get eternal meaning either, if it can be done, you have effectually increased the risk of eternal torture for all of us by working in this direction.
>Our life could be eternal and thus have meaning forever.
Or you could be tortured forever without consent and without even being allowed to die. You know, the thing organized religion has spent millennia moralizing through endless spin efforts, which is now a part of common culture, including popular culture.
Let’s just look at our culture, as well as contemporary and historical global cultures. Do we have:
a consensus of consensualism (life and suffering should be voluntary)? Nope, we don’t.
a consensus of anti-torture (torturing people being illegal and immoral universally)? Nope, we don’t.
a consensus of proportionality (finite actions shouldn’t lead to infinite punishments)? Nope, we don’t.
You’d need at least one of these to just *reduce* the probability of eternal torture, and then it still wouldn’t guarantee an acceptable outcome. And we have none of these.
They would if they could, and the only reason you’re not being already tortured for all eternity is because they haven’t found a way to implement it.
The probability of getting it done is small, but that is not an argument in favor of your suggestion; if it can’t be done, you don’t get eternal meaning either, if it can be done, you have effectually increased the risk of eternal torture for all of us by working in this direction.