(April 3, 2015 at 1:27 am)robvalue Wrote: ... The thing that pisses me off about life is you can't turn it off for a break. ...
You can turn it off, but not for just a break. And turning it off is not as easy as flipping a switch. If it were, there would be a lot more people committing suicide than there are at present. It is quite a bother, and it involves fighting against instinct. People often imagine that it is somehow rational to live, but it is instinct. If it were based on reason, primitive animals would not be acting in ways that tend to keep them alive. The will to live, if you will pardon the expression, is more basic than something based upon the uncertain reasoning of people. Evolutionarily speaking, the ability to reason comes after the will to live. Of course, I am writing of this in a loose manner, but the basic idea is correct.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
