(October 26, 2022 at 4:13 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 26, 2022 at 12:58 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Does a promise made yesterday become no longer a promise because yesterday is in the past and therefore doesn't exist anymore?
Let's go with 'be a decent human'.
But what does that mean? To whom are you being decent when the person either no longer exists or does not and may never come to exist?
I respected my father enough to work toward carrying out his final wishes. If you prefer to think that promises made to those who are gone are no longer valid, that's your choice.
My choice, and the choice of my sister, was to do what he asked.
I am at peace with that. YMMV
btw - You do you. I pass no judgement either way.
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