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"Robert Lowell once said that if humans had access to a button that would kill us instantly and painlessly, we would all press it sooner or later." They'd push
by pmoriarty 5y ago
"Robert Lowell once said that if humans had access to a button that would kill us instantly and painlessly, we would all press it sooner or later."
They'd push it even sooner if no one they cared about depended on them.
A lot of people stay alive simply out of a sense of responsibility towards others.
- agumonkey 5y agoI think the storage space for our notion of 'others' or 'loved ones' is one extremely potent part of our minds. I am who I love somehow, my brain goes against destroying that bond.
- spaetzleesser 5y ago“They'd push it even sooner if no one they cared about depended on them. A lot of people stay alive simply out of a sense of responsibility towards others.” That would be me. I don’t want to be a burden to people.