(June 20, 2015 at 7:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:Death is not a bad thing at all. Bad things only happen to the living.
Then death, by definition, is a bad thing, since death is something that only happens to the living.
Boru
No. Not everything that happens to living things is bad. So it most certainly is not by definition a bad thing.
You seem to be confusing "bad things only happen to the living" with "only bad things happen to the living." The two mean very different things. Word order matters for meaning.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.