Is one’s answer to the dilemma supposed to illuminate something about the title question? Presumably a large part of the worth-livingness of life consists in the NPV of future experiences, not just in past experiences.
Title question: Yes. Proof by revealed preference:
Dilemma: Choose the second, on the odds that God changes its mind and lets you keep living, can’t find you again the second time around, is itself annihilated in the interim, etc.
Quibble: Annihilationism is an eschatalogical doctrine about the final fate of all souls, not the simple event of the annihilation.
Is one’s answer to the dilemma supposed to illuminate something about the title question? Presumably a large part of the worth-livingness of life consists in the NPV of future experiences, not just in past experiences.
Title question: Yes. Proof by revealed preference:
Dilemma: Choose the second, on the odds that God changes its mind and lets you keep living, can’t find you again the second time around, is itself annihilated in the interim, etc.
Quibble: Annihilationism is an eschatalogical doctrine about the final fate of all souls, not the simple event of the annihilation.