Hell

[theblindferrengi]

To me, hell (if it existed) would not be a place, but a state of being, where you were on a nearly identical version of earty, except there were no consequenses for any of your actions. This sounds nice at first glance, but it would be horible; if you did something beneficial to society, you would get no credit, no recognition, and others would plagurize it and kick you away. If you so domething detrimental, like a crime, nothing happens to you. You would turn into a criminal, and watch yourself doing so. It would be fun at first to be able to rob a bank and have nobody come after you, but it would soon grow old, as your life would be meaningless and worthless.

It is not only one of the goals of a human, but one of the emotional necesitys, that our lifes have some kind of meaning to us, we all like to think we make some small difference; that is the point of not having consequenses, you would never be able to make a diference, you could do the actual work, but all of any credit would go to the nearest avalible person who would claim it. Even hardened criminals have this wanting to make some kind of difference on the earth, although not quite of the same nature as the rest of us, they want to be recognised for their crimes eventually, and that is why we catch them so easily. Even they who would never be recognized for their crimes would get infinitely frustrated with that situaton.

"It's like living a happy moral life and being hanged because you didn't worship the lord of the land"

Its like being hanged and not dying, just kicking and gurgling, and being left up on the gallows for eternity.