On 21 Dec 2014, at 20:06, meekerdb wrote:
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)
Would do accept to be tortured, here and now, with the promise of 1)
1000,000 $, 2) total amnesia of the torture?
If no, the Mark Twain argument is less convincing.
Note that Mark twain provides here an argument for after-life. If I
could come from nowhere, why would that not be possible again? is it
not the case all the time? Who are we, really?
Bruno
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