shokwave comments on Rationality Quotes December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 06 December 2011 06:00:03AM 15 points [-]

And each individual panics! Witness the common existential crisis: execute a head-first dive into mild depression and loudly proclaim your conversion to pure hedonism. But since nobody else is currently panicking, the individual comes to mimic the standard mental state. Which may not be the correct mental state...

Comment author: Ezekiel 20 December 2011 02:21:38PM 0 points [-]

Do you really think that panic is in response to the (perceived) inevitability of death? The arguments (and sensibilities) for and against hedonism don't change if people stop dying. I think.