joanna bujes wrote:
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
"I suppose the ultimate human goal is the realisation of immortality, i.e. the extension of human life in perpetuity, which assumes a love of human life, a love of being human in any possible way."
It may be the ultimate egotistic goal, but I don't know that I would call it the ultimate human goal. It does not assume a love of life; it assumes egocentrism and fear of death. You cannot be free and fear death...you cannot be free and fear any form of the unknown.
Joanna