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The most interesting part of that post ties with something that Richard Dawkins likes to remind us : "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Mo
by gyom 14y ago
The most interesting part of that post ties with something that Richard Dawkins likes to remind us :
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia."
- brokenparser 14y agoI think it's a religious belief to think splooge has lots of tiny people in it (and therefore one should refrain from pleasing oneself), but it's really just unicellular organisms (which I think may outnumber all the grains of sand on Earth).
- maxerickson 14y agoUnsurprisingly, that isn't quite the angle uber-athiest Richard Dawkins is using: http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/91-to-live-at-all-is-miracle-enough http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/91-to-live-at-all-is-...
- gyom 14y agoHe wasn't talking about homunculus, if that's what you mean, but I didn't imagine there could be confusion about what he meant. It's basically like thinking about the kids that could have had if you had descendants with person A instead of person B. There's nobody around to be disappointed for not being born, but those who got be alive are "lucky" in a certain sense of the word.