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> Their mortality rates were 100%, as are ours. You're desperately trying to avoid the question. Their free time doesn't mean anything if they die in their 30s
by rumanator 7y ago
> Their mortality rates were 100%, as are ours.
You're desperately trying to avoid the question. Their free time doesn't mean anything if they die in their 30s while living a life where they are forced to endure famines and the deaths of loved ones for avoidable problems such as lack of medical care.
- Fricken 7y agoLife is suffering, this is ancient wisdom, and an absolute. Serfs suffer. Billionaires suffer. Ants suffer. We suffer in a variety of different ways, but nothing changes the fact that we suffer. Talking about our ancestors like their lives were exclusively miserable is like pitying kids in the 80s because their video games weren't as good, it's ridiculous. They just played different games. There's nothing meaningful here to measure quantitatively, it's all a matter of perception.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago> There's nothing meaningful here to measure quantitatively Yes, there is - their age.
- Fricken 7y agoI'm must be out of the loop, because I've never met a dead person who is the least bit upset that they're dead. It's only the living who freak out about it, and they aren't even qualified to have an opinion on the matter.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoCool, nihilism it is. Nothing matters, everything is awful, and we're all just dead flesh anyways.