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Human beings have virtually no value if they are just machines
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RE: Human beings have virtually no value if they are just machines
(December 11, 2017 at 9:23 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: ... As long as I am happy, having fun, and enjoying my life, then I would want to live like that for perhaps trillions of years or maybe even forever.  But as long as I have to live a life of depression, misery, and unhappiness, then that is no way to live for me and it is a life of no value.  The fact of the matter is, if I grew tired of living a happy and fun life after 60 or so years, then I would find much value and worth in this life being finite.  But I don't grow tired of a happy, fun life and the fact that this life isn't a happy life that lasts for perhaps trillions of years means that it isn't as valuable of a life to me.

That's absolutely true - if you were perfectly happy, even after living a trillion years, you wouldn't want to die, and if you died that would be a tremendous tragedy. 
And it doesn't matter if you only lived for five minutes, the tragedy is the same.
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RE: Human beings have virtually no value if they are just machines - by Banned - December 15, 2017 at 4:18 pm

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