Say that, in thirty-plus years, you’re still alive and I’ve been cryonically preserved for a while. What could I have done during my life to convince you to apply your finite resources to resurrect me, rather than someone else?
Say that, in thirty-plus years, you’re still hale and hearty and I’ve been seriously ill for a while. What could I have done during my life so far to convince you to apply your finite resources to heal me, rather than someone else?
Given that it’s questionable whether I’m going to have enough finite resources to bring my aging cat to the vet in the near future; and I live in Canada, with its single-payer health care system; it’s a somewhat more complicated question than it may seem. Given past evidence, some minimal qualifications might involve me knowing that you exist, and knowing that I was able to help you, and knowing that the help I could provide would make a difference (this latter being one of the harder qualifications to satisfy). Given all of /that/… one potential qualification might be the possibility for future reciprocation, either directly, or by being part of a shared, low-population social group in which your future contribution could still end up benefiting me—such as, say, the two of us being part of a literally-one-in-a-million group working together to try to find some way to permanently cheat death.
There are probably other answers, including ones that I don’t recognize due to my limited knowledge of human psychology and my finite insight into my own motivations… but that one seems to have some measure of plausibility.
Say that, in thirty-plus years, you’re still hale and hearty and I’ve been seriously ill for a while. What could I have done during my life so far to convince you to apply your finite resources to heal me, rather than someone else?
Given that it’s questionable whether I’m going to have enough finite resources to bring my aging cat to the vet in the near future; and I live in Canada, with its single-payer health care system; it’s a somewhat more complicated question than it may seem. Given past evidence, some minimal qualifications might involve me knowing that you exist, and knowing that I was able to help you, and knowing that the help I could provide would make a difference (this latter being one of the harder qualifications to satisfy). Given all of /that/… one potential qualification might be the possibility for future reciprocation, either directly, or by being part of a shared, low-population social group in which your future contribution could still end up benefiting me—such as, say, the two of us being part of a literally-one-in-a-million group working together to try to find some way to permanently cheat death.
There are probably other answers, including ones that I don’t recognize due to my limited knowledge of human psychology and my finite insight into my own motivations… but that one seems to have some measure of plausibility.