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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26974523
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Counterpoint:
Human life is the cold dead universe come to life to observe itself, experience itself. What a waste it would be to have that tiny glimmer go out too fast, or not be spent on experiencing everything possible.
Life is all we can possibly conceive of knowing. I can’t tell you that you ought to live, but I can tell you that there might not be anything it’s like to be dead. Is it worth the risk?
However bad life might be at any given moment, unless total non-existence sounds “good” to you, death isn’t a risk worth taking. After all, we are always at some risk of dying. It’ll happen eventually.
Is it worth the risk?
Life is temporary and fleeting. Death is a universal certainty, not a gamble.
I would say that so long as we are alive we have agency over ourselves and our surroundings, even if only marginally. The real benefit of life is not merely the fear of death. It is the opportunity to see and to know and to change the world around you. Cognition is a gift, even if it is a confusing and imperfect one.
What’s more, death is not non-existence, it is non-sentience. The stuff that is you is still there. It is simply rendered powerless and ignorant. You are still of the world and in the world. You have only given up your ability to actively participate in it.
