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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by aperrien on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @05:39PM (#16749575)
> Thousands of years of human thinking have determined that the prospect of death is an integral part of the human experience and may be the thing that provides life meaning. I don't know about anyone else, but the idea that the coming natural death of me and probably everyone else in this thread is on par with a genocide is upsetting

To me, this sounds like the naturalistic fallacy. Is there a better argument than this one?

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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by nostromo95 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @07:37PM (#16750477)
How about a utilitarian one: it's most likely that everyone alive right now is going to die, so from a quality-of-life perspective most people should try to accept their death.
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