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You are completely and utterly missing the point. The point is not "y'kno, death is actually not that bad, maybe we shouldn't try to get rid of it". As you poin
by laughinghan 15y ago
You are completely and utterly missing the point. The point is not "y'kno, death is actually not that bad, maybe we shouldn't try to get rid of it". As you point out, there are a lot of reasons to get rid of death, if we could.
The point is that fantasizing about "curing" death is harmful to people making difficult decisions about their life and that of their loved ones. People need to face the fact that death is inevitable and part of life, and like everything else unpleasant that is part of life, they must handle it like an adult.
- etherael 15y agoIt currently is, that doesn't mean it's theoretically impossible that it ever could be otherwise. It's not fantasizing to point that out.
- wpietri 15y agoHave you noticed somebody objecting to neutrally pointing out something that might be a theoretical possibility? Because what I see people objecting to is not the raising of a possibility. It's the indulging of a fantasy that lets people avoid thinking about an empirical certainty.