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It's absurd to divide people into two categories and expect those two categories to be meaningful in more than a few contexts.
It is absurd to divide people. They tend to die if you do that.
It's absurd to divide. You tend to die if you do that.
It's absurd: You tend to die.
It's absurd to die.
It's bs to die.
Be.
“To do is to be” -- Nietzsche
“To be is to do” -- Kant
“Do be do be do” -- Sinatra
Nobody alive has died yet.
At least not in worlds where he is alive.
Is it worse to enter a state of superimposed death and life than to die?
I hope not. That's the state we are all in now and what we are entering constantly. Unless there are rounding errors in the universe we haven't detected yet.
I think life requires a system large and complex enough to produce decoherence between "alive" and "dead" in timescales shorter than required to define "alive" at all.
It will be quick. It might even be painless. I would not know. I have never died.
-- Voldemort
“Males” and “females”. (OK, there are edge cases and stuff, but this doesn't mean the categories aren't meaningful, does it?)
What about good vs bad humans?
Or humans who create paperclips versus those who don't?
I thought I just said that.
Can't their be good humans who don't create paperclips and just destroy antipaperclips and staples and such?
Destroying antipaperclips is creating paperclips.
I didn't know humans had the concept though.
What is an antipaperclip?
Anything not a paperclip, or in opposition to further paperclipping. You might ask, "Why not just say 'non-paperclips'?" but anti-paperclips include paperclips deliberately designed to unbend, or which work at anti-paperclip purposes (say, a paperclip being used to short-circuit the electrical systems in a paperclip factory).