Comment by habitue
3 years ago
> death doesn’t have any downsides
The fact that most people try to avoid death by any means possible is a good indication it has downsides.
Specifically, the fact that you can no longer go on living is a big downside of death in my mind.
People try to avoid dying every day.
They put on their seatbelts, make sure their food isn’t covered in poop, check their boots for scorpions, take their insulin, etc.
They can’t avoid death. Nobody in the history of humanity has successfully avoided death.
But once death happens nothing matters to them any more. They literally no longer care about the life they’re not going on living.
Dying might be scary or painful but death isn’t.
Technically untrue, approximately 7.31 percent of all humans who have ever lived are currently alive (i.e. have avoided death (so far)).
Also your argument is just disingenuous. Nonexistence may not be painful, but the concept of nonexistence can be quite disturbing for the currently existing (even apart from the experience of dying.)
Do you think any of those 7.31 percent of all humans will avoid death?
And no, it’s not disingenuous. If someone offered you the choice of immortality (never ever dying under any circumstances) or continuing with natural human existence (being guaranteed to die at some point), which would you take?
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