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Do you have any particular reason to care what lifestyle choices people here consider 'okay'?
Do you have any particular reason to suggest that every attempt to ask anyone else for advice makes the requester a conformist?
Not at all, which is precisely why I haven't done that.
CronoDAS wasn't asking for advice. Depending on how his question is interpreted, he was looking for permission / approval.
Specifically, I expect that he's looking for community validation of the extremely low value he places on his own life.
Which is actually an interesting question, as I (unfortunately) don't think it's defensible to tell someone "No, your life is worth more than you personally value it at".
Some people have times when they are suicidally depressed. I think it's quite defensible to tell those people that their life is worth more than they personally value it at.
More generally, I don't see any strong reasons to expect people to be less mistaken about their own life worth than about any other sort of value judgment.
Also, I don't see any case yet for interpreting CronoDAS as doing anything more than simply asking a community that may have some insight into a given field (rationality), whether his reasoning or conclusions check out.
Yes, but valuable to whom? To themselves? That seems contradictory. To others? Sure, but what are you going to do about, tell them they can't do as they please with their life because other people value it more than they do? In some general sense of intrinsic value? That's going to be difficult to define.
This is an old comment so I no longer remember clearly, but he made remarks previously that were strongly indicative of my interpretation. I can possibly dig them up if you really wanted.