Re: If life is a benefit...

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> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:14:26 -0500, "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:01:58 GMT, ipse dixit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > If life is a benefit, then it's logically certain that
> > > no life [ie never existing at all] is a loss.
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> > Life is not a benefit. Life is not an argument. Logical certainty and loss
> > are meaningless, unthinkable, and impossible without the existence of some
> > being capable of  harboring them. To the best of our knowledge humans are
> > the only beings capable of  logical certainty. Other (some) critters are, I
> > believe, capable of a sense of loss. Both cases require life; specifically
> > animal life. 
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>     Life is the benefit which makes all others possible.

Life is not a benefit at all.