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Re:Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression by icebraining on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:43AM (#15401294)
I can understand personally not waiting to live over an arbitrary age, since that's a subjective feeling. It just seems weird to consider it an universal point and deem everyone who doesn't to be morally defective. What's the objective basis for that?
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Re:Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression by aaron-lebo on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:44PM (#15401783)
I'm sorry, "weird" in this context just means "whoa dude, that's weird to consider". It's not an argument of morality. You can lack empathy and still be fairly moral.

But these are just thoughts, happy to be wrong.

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Re:Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression by icebraining on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @01:23PM (#15402157)
Fair enough, although doesn't seem much better for the people in question.

My puzzle is more over the line. Seems to me that if empathetic person can wish to live an extra year starting from their 50th anniversary, why not on their 100th or 250th?

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