Perhaps he can ask her to elaborate more about what she means when she doesn’t want to experience war, because as you point out, there are lots of wars going on right now. Maybe she means a very “close” war. Perhaps you could comfort her with the thought that you guys could escape to a different country? Or ask her whether that’s really her ultimate value, that no matter what good things she experiences experiencing war would cancel them all out.
She does mean a “close” war and she’s afraid we won’t be able to escape or get separated. Even if we do make it to another country we’d have to live in a refugee camp under horrible conditions.
Remind her that Poor Folks Do Smile, and often (ok, nearly 100% of the time) people who say they’d rather be dead than be paralyzed/quadriplegic/whatever and then end up in that condition turn out to actually want to keep living cuz it’s not as terrible as they imagined. I presume the same goes for people in a warzone.
Besides, living in a refugee camp during a warzone is reversible, death is not.
Or, heck, if she really DOES despise the condition that much, and she really would kill herself today if a war broke out in her neighborhood tomorrow—she can still possibly live thousands of years in peace and then, once the war actually breaks out, kill herself. Either way she avoided the horror of war, but with cyronics she first got to enjoy an extra millenia or two of life first.
Too late.
If she means fighting in her area, she could just move.
I think this is the real problem. I don’t really know a lot about convincing irrational people of things, so I can’t really help.
Perhaps he can ask her to elaborate more about what she means when she doesn’t want to experience war, because as you point out, there are lots of wars going on right now. Maybe she means a very “close” war. Perhaps you could comfort her with the thought that you guys could escape to a different country? Or ask her whether that’s really her ultimate value, that no matter what good things she experiences experiencing war would cancel them all out.
She does mean a “close” war and she’s afraid we won’t be able to escape or get separated. Even if we do make it to another country we’d have to live in a refugee camp under horrible conditions.
Remind her that Poor Folks Do Smile, and often (ok, nearly 100% of the time) people who say they’d rather be dead than be paralyzed/quadriplegic/whatever and then end up in that condition turn out to actually want to keep living cuz it’s not as terrible as they imagined. I presume the same goes for people in a warzone.
Besides, living in a refugee camp during a warzone is reversible, death is not.
Or, heck, if she really DOES despise the condition that much, and she really would kill herself today if a war broke out in her neighborhood tomorrow—she can still possibly live thousands of years in peace and then, once the war actually breaks out, kill herself. Either way she avoided the horror of war, but with cyronics she first got to enjoy an extra millenia or two of life first.
Whatever is behind this “reason” is not amenable to rationality. You’d need to work out where on earth this came from.