(October 26, 2019 at 8:36 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(October 26, 2019 at 7:23 pm)Macoleco Wrote: Death is what gives things value.
Only in poetry does death give things value; which is what I mean by death being romanticized. At the end of the day value is subjective, and we are the ones that give it, not death.
Agree. Value can be, in part, a function of scarcity (real or perceived). But that's just a small part of it. It is really just what we arbitrarily prefer, based on our temperament, personality, preferences, self-awareness, curiosity, pain tolerance, and a few other things.
Death, by making life scarce, can increase the perceived value of the things we experience in life, but we have quite a bit of latitude in what we choose to value quite apart from, and often in spite off, the reality of our mortality. In a hypothetical situation where we had biological immortality and would never age or get sick but could only die of misadventure, we'd still assign relative value to various things and we would still have various scarcities in the mix influencing those subjective assignments we'd be making.
