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Not really. I can see wanting to live an extra 20-30 years if you're 60. Less so if you're 80. Starts to get weird if you're over 100. I'll be happy if I make
by ams6110 9y ago
Not really. I can see wanting to live an extra 20-30 years if you're 60. Less so if you're 80. Starts to get weird if you're over 100.
I'll be happy if I make 75 and I'll view every day after that as a gift and not something I deserve.
- icebraining 9y agoI can understand personally not waiting to live over an arbitrary age, since that's a subjective feeling. It just seems weird to consider it an universal point and deem everyone who doesn't to be morally defective. What's the objective basis for that?
- aaron-lebo 9y agoI'm sorry, "weird" in this context just means "whoa dude, that's weird to consider". It's not an argument of morality. You can lack empathy and still be fairly moral. But these are just thoughts, happy to be wrong.
- icebraining 9y agoFair enough, although doesn't seem much better for the people in question. My puzzle is more over the line. Seems to me that if empathetic person can wish to live an extra year starting from their 50th anniversary, why not on their 100th or 250th?