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Death is wrong.


It's not though, death is natural and inevitable. There are also practical considerations: if death is eliminated, we must stop reproduction too.


It's not though, death is natural and inevitable

You committed the naturalistic fallacy. Also, inevitability isn't a justification for bad things happening.

There are also practical considerations: if death is eliminated, we must stop reproduction too.

I would prioritize existing lives over the yet to be born.


> I would prioritize existing lives over the yet to be born.

From an evolutionary point of view that makes very little sense.


Evolution has no desire to make sense, it's a blind natural process with no intent or point of view. From a human point of view, what he said makes perfect sense.


Plus, that is again a naturalistic fallacy.


Insulin and antibiotics also make very little sense from that point of view.


What? How's that relevant?


I don't understand this line of thinking.

Even in startup culture, it makes sense that some business (existing lives) have to die in order for new business models (those yet to be born) to emerge.

What's to say that the existing lives won't hinder growth that would happen from new lives being born and re-imagining the world that everyone is used to?


Nice to see someone that shares my viewpoint. I wrote an essay about death: http://beyond-impossible.blogspot.com/2012/02/atheism-death-...

Let me know if find it interesting (or not :))


Fear is wrong. Fear of death is wrong.


> Fear is wrong.

Oh yeah?. I suppose you wouldn't be afraid of jumping off a cliff, then? Most of the time, fear is very, very useful. Don't underestimate it.

Now, fear of death specifically might be wrong. But fear of whatever causes death sure is not.


On what grounds?


You're right. Death should be illegal. I suggest capital punishment.




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