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I think it has to be your own interpretation of alive. If you're starting today surrounded by a loving family, in good health, enjoying relative comfort but yo
by CraigJPerry 3y ago
I think it has to be your own interpretation of alive.
If you're starting today surrounded by a loving family, in good health, enjoying relative comfort but you end the thought experiment as a comfortably solvent 80 year old in an apartment but with no friends or family, does that count as making it out alive?
That has to be for you to decide.
- thfuran 3y agoComfortably solvent and not dead? That's unambiguously alive. Whether it's successful or not is another matter.
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- CraigJPerry 3y agoIs that alive or just existing? That specific scenario most probably isn’t one, for most people, but are there fates worse than death?
- thfuran 3y ago>Is that alive Yes, obviously. >but are there fates worse than death? If you're not sure about that, you can at least be sure that "not getting out alive" isn't one of them. Because that means death.
- CraigJPerry 3y agoThere’s nuance here but you’re missing it