(March 27, 2015 at 9:33 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:Let's talk about the elephant in the room-- is it wrong for one to spend one's free time in this manner? Is the loss of life really important, or is it an act of philosophical liberty?(March 27, 2015 at 6:02 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'd say that anyone who approaches philosophy with any other attitude than the OP shows doesn't really get what it means to be a philosopher. Good stuff.
Quite possibly true, but I'll warn that these kinds of existential crisis can lead to one spending one's free time with a revolver in one's mouth. IOW, don't play this kind of hardcore game when you're very vulnerable.
The mundane me is horrified by both violence and the premature loss of a fully developed mind. The philosopher in me is much less horrified, because it finds no rational reason why I'm more important than (for example) the maggots who could feast on my body, or why having another existent human is more important than the small forest that will be cleared in order to provide me with a lifetime of paper products.
