(June 30, 2016 at 9:36 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:Quote:But I would die to keep her from being eaten by that bear even though I know that my dying means I will no longer care that she isn't going to be eaten by a bear.
Well, no, you haven't really stopped her from getting eaten by a bear. It'll devour you and go after her, and if we're talking about bears here, that would mean you would most likely be in a forest where there is more than one bear around -- so if your daughter doesn't get killed by the same bear that ate you, she's probably gonna get killed by another one while running away.
That's the trick though. Once I've been eaten by a bear, what happens next is irrelevant. My state remains the same whether she escapes or is eaten. Sacrificing oneself has no upside, because dead people are just dead.
It's some terminator/back to the future temporal wizardry. I have attachments to a result that I will be ambivalent to when it occurs.
