[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

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This seems to be a projection on your part. I don't know if I want to poke this subject any further, because I am not your friend. 

I would hate to think that all that keeps your feet planted on the platform, is just a fear of death, and not a desire to live.

The desire to live is a pleasant disguise for the fear of death.   I have no problem indulging in the pleasantness.   But I know fundamentally why it is pleasant at all.

That doesn't seem to be true either. People will sacrifice their life for things of meaning. Like father willing to die for the sake of their loved ones, their children. In fact a man might be willing to die for the life of a stranger. 

Or those like MLK, and others who were willing to not just sacrifice their life, but willing to risk the lives of their family, for a cause they deeply believe in. 

Or German families hiding Jews even at the tremendous risk of getting caught and getting killed as result, is another example. 

Hell, even suicide bombers.