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Well, luckily the people who died fighting in World War 2 cared about their society’s descendants, otherwise why bother fighting and dying? If your future socie

• watwut 5y ago
  A lot of them were nazi. Many nazi fought that war. They have seen themselves as fighting for future. Majority of people dying were civilians.
• NineStarPoint 5y ago
  To care for the state of future generations is worthwhile, because it is to give hope and happiness to them while they are living. I want all of humanity to live in as ideal a world as possible, and it’s worth fighting in the present so that future humanity has a better world. And society should care for those who have sacrificed for it, while they are alive. Once I am dead though, there is no me here to respect any more. Death is complete separation from this world. The vast majority of people who have ever died are completely lost to memory, whether they wanted that fate or not. And for those we do still remember, they’re long past having the ability to care at all what happens to what they left behind. Whether through nothingness or an afterlife, they are no longer here.
• WalterBright 5y ago
  Fighting for the future is very different than fighting for the past. We've evolved to care about our descendants, not our ancestors.
• rimiform 5y ago
  Don't think they had much choice in the matter, seeing as there was a punishment for defection.