RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 26, 2016 at 1:37 pm
(September 26, 2016 at 12:59 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(September 26, 2016 at 12:38 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: We can't believe them because it's impossible and it doesn't make any sense. They were done with living because of the ailments of old age, not because they were just simply tired of it all. Nothing is that simple. There are two possible reasons for one to want to end their life or simply welcome a possible end with open arms. I already mentioned both of them. It can be a bit of both or one more than the other, but there's no other possible reason.
Yes, people could get tired of living. I described why, that's all.
So, you're saying if we could eliminate the inevitability of old age and breakdown, everyone would want to live forever? Hmm. Maybe. I'm still not sure that is a reasonable assumption to make though. How would anyone know they'd still enjoy living beyond, say, 600 years if no one has ever actually made it that far? I can sit here right now and say if I were to remain 33 and healthy I'd be thrilled to live for eternity, but how do I know I wouldn't change my mind some 200 years down the line?
No, if you could eliminate the solvable problem of old-age related breakdown, yes, people wouldn't "tire" of living. They might still want to end their lives, but it would be for other reasons than so-called "tiredness". Do you hear many young healthy folks saying they're done with life, they've lived enough and it's time for them to go now? Why is it that you don't, do you think? Take whatever reason you might come up with to explain that and ask yourself if you think it's unlikely or even impossible that we won't overcome it in the future.
You don't, but neither do you know that you will. If we are to allow for the simple fact that we just don't know what the future might bring or what that particular situation might look like, yet, then both positions expressed here so far are just as invalid. Namely, we don't know either way. We can make assumptions, though. That's what I've been doing, same as all the rest of you who disagree with me at the moment.
