Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013)

Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by 8note on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:51AM (#28153353)

I don't think 2 is right. Only property becomes meaningless, since it's the only thing you're losing. Life and freedom only become more meaningful with time constraints, since you don't have time to do anything and everything.

As a matter of focus, we should solve those other problems first, especially since increasing life expectancy is already having bad effects, both in wealth and power concentration. Eg. Boomers not retiring, and not dying, so gen x and millenials have bad careers and nowhere to live

For another rephrasing, if I had the option to go back in time, and prolong the life of all the slave owners and the people they enslaved, I wouldn't subject the poor people to 1000 years of torture.

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by mLuby on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:30PM (#28163735)

Put another way, you're in favor with forcing everyone to die hundreds of years early. "Nasty, brutish, and short" indeed.

I'm calling bullshit on "time constraints as meaningfulness" too. That's just the subjective time dilation we experience during stressful situations, like in sports.

We have so many aphorisms to sooth the fear of death, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily true in a post-mortality culture.

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