Re: If life is a benefit...

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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.

It occurs to me that life may not be a benefit.
Life as a human, to make it simpler than it could
be, can be very painful. Some diseases and other
situations could make life a torturous experience
which may actually cause a being to lose consciousness
through shock. It seems that the choice of suicide,
leaving aside the fear of death as a deterrent, might
not be possible to all people, ... there remains the
fact that most people do not chose death over
life, so that unless the instinct for survival is so
strong that in causes  people to live in a state that
is a loss, then you would assume that since people
live and chose not to die, that life is inherently good,
something so obvious, that only logic could question
it. I'm glad that humor doesn't require logical
validation.

I'm not lost but I am all-over-the-map.
: -)