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The original wager is more extreme than that. Paradise is eternal Fun, while hell is eternal Not Cool. Cryonics, assuming you don't believe in the afterlife,
by loup-vaillant 11y ago
The original wager is more extreme than that. Paradise is eternal Fun, while hell is eternal Not Cool. Cryonics, assuming you don't believe in the afterlife, only gives a hope of life in our world, instead of certain oblivion.
Life does not have infinite value. People, including atheists, sometimes give their own life for some higher purpose (another life, freedom, a better standard of living for their village…).
Of course, this would be different if you seek to escape Hell. (You might be religious, and guilty of some mortal sin.)
- Apofis 11y agoI don't know about you, but to me my life has infinite value, I only have one after all.
- loup-vaillant 11y agoHow often do you commute your way to work? Driving has its risks. Now weight this risk against your salary. A cynical calculation may find that your own acts value your life at a few million dollars, maybe even a few dozen millions.
- geofft 11y ago"Life" is more than the biological definition. There are things I could do to my life that would make it no longer worth living (and, on the way there, no longer of infinite value), and living in pathological fear of death is basically the broadest category of those things.