On 12/20/2014 11:05 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
Most legal systems punish murder more than any other crime, and those that have the
death penalty reserve it for the worst offenders. Most criminals know that if they
threaten a person with death they are more likely to comply than with other threats.
Most religions, in the absence of any evidence, promise an afterlife. I think this all
supports the fact that it is a common human trait to fear oblivion, even if as John
says it's just a matter of taste.
Stathis Papaioannou
It might be a common human trait to fear oblivion, but it is even more irrational than
belief in an afterlife.
Bruce
"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."'
--- Mark Twain
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