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Now, imagine that you could do something which would achieve something you felt was worthwhile but which would also result in your painless death.
There is no rational reason to fear deat: you will never experience it, after all.
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There is also no need to concern yourself with the notion that you will feel guilty at putting your relatives through hell.
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Um, there is need to concern oneself. If existence is all there is, and I care about others feelings during existence, then it doesn't matter that I won't experience the consequences. Imagined probable consequences are also valid and real concepts while I still exist. Gah I can't figure out how to put this into words.
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Paradoxically, there will also be no you to see the amazing thing that your death brings about.
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No, but you have imagined it and desire for it while you still exist, and feel it is worth your death.
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Thus, none of these considerations - fear of death, concern for others of the desire to bring something amazing about - should have any impact on the decision to die or not.
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Sure it should, because the consequences are determined or imagined and the decision made during existence, so they have an impact on the ALL of the self.
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After all, the way we decide things is about consequences. If our decision to kill ourselves can have no consequences - consequences in decision making require a subject to see them, after all (in other words, for you there will be no death, no suffering relatives and no glorious dream fulfilled) - then it is a decision that does not matter.
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Imagined consequences of the affect your actions will have on others are valid in decision making, IMO. The decision matters in the NOW based on empathy and probability. Sure I won't care when I am not here if my relatives are suffering, but I care NOW about their future suffering.
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When you take into account that you are going to die and that there are therefore no consequences to any decision you make in your life we are left with the only conclusion possible: that the choice to die is more rational than any other choice - if not the only rational decision - because every other choice is made on the assumption that there are consequences.
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Nope, I don't think that follows. The consequences, whether actualized or conceptualized, are part of existence, and existence is all.