RE: Would you do this sacrifice?
December 2, 2014 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2014 at 3:23 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 2, 2014 at 2:34 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(December 1, 2014 at 8:12 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Suppose you were given a choice.
Continue living as a normal person, die, don't come back, and when you die, you enter heaven provided you weren't super evil.
The other choice is that you are given powers and so much knowledge and given ability to live for a very long time (like 30 000 years) and you would be able to solve all the world's problems with your powers and knowledge but the downside to it, is that once you die, you will be tortured for eternity. The torture will be severe as the severest description of hell possible.
Would you live on normally or would you do the sacrifice for the knowledge, powers, and lifespan and solve the world's problems?
Be honest.
If a balrog was climbing up out of a deep chasm in order to kill your friends, would you stand at the bridge with your staff and order your friends to flee, knowing that the chains of the balrog's flail will surely drag you to your doom?
Yeah, it really is about that silly.
But we all know "doom" is just there to both enable us to claim the ultimate self sacrifice, and still to come back as gandolf the white to gloat over the downfall of sauron.
That's okay for a fantasy novel. A real system of morality would never be stoop to that kind of childish disingenuous moral double dealing, would it now.
