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In light of the recent post on logical rudeness, I feel I ought to complete this thread with a final reply. It is this: if your first post had consisted of this analysis instead of your remarks on fearing death, I would not have begun a conversation; therefore, having reached this point, I'm happy to stop here. On the substance of the parent, I'll say I don't agree on a couple of points, these points make all the difference, and I don't expect a return on the investment of arguing them.
Well I thought some about this whole thread after reading that article.
In my defense, I did acknowledge a number of errors or fallacies: the most important being that I do have preferences now about things that happen even when I am unconscious, and that the same apply even when I am dead. The second is your point, which is that underscoring my entire argument is a basic belief that it "just won't work"; and thats really all my argument amounts to.
For me, I take it as a given that cryonics won't work, just as I take atheism as a given. So when I'm presented with someone who is in favor of cryonics, I don't really take their preference for it at face-value. I project (incorrectly) that they are buying to cryonics to get a hedge against "fear of dying" and so my only point is it doesn't really help much with that...if you believe what I believe. Its a pretty stupid argument really; while there was some learning value in this thread for me the OP is pretty fail.
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