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interesting idea but i feel like this is an extreme end of a spectrum to a solution of suffering. There are plenty more solutions like giving those who suffer a
by SonicSoul 9y ago
interesting idea but i feel like this is an extreme end of a spectrum to a solution of suffering. There are plenty more solutions like giving those who suffer an easy and painless and dogma free way to exit. I think that even knowing that you have an option to leave would be an instant boost to ones psyche. Sort of like running a marathon with an option to quit, vs running a marathon with no options but death. Probably infinite solutions exists in this space if we got rid of dogma.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoBut one of the cases he makes is that everyone suffers - mild things, like being hungry, thirsty, having to use the bathroom, small pains which are pretty much constant once you've hit your 30s. Would you offer those an easy / painless way out? He's also not arguing about ending life once it exists - death is bad too. There's more of that in the article itself.
- SonicSoul 9y agoi'd take that with a grain of salt. he can't possibly know what hunger feels like for other people. some people love to use the bathroom, some people love the hunger. some people fast on purpose, be it religious, health, meditation, bio hacking, they do it because it makes them better off. some people suffer on purpose. philosophers probably suffer more than other people and not on purpose :)