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14 Post author: Zvi 08 March 2011 03:18PM

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Comment author: MartinB 10 March 2011 08:58:39PM -1 points [-]

Is dying bad for all intelligent agents,

I tend to think »dying is for stupid people« but obviously there is never an appropriate term to say so. When someone in my surrounding actually dies I do of course NOT talk about cryo, but do the common consoling. Otherwise the topic of death does not really come up.

Maybe one could say that dying should be optional. But this idea is also heavily frowned upon by THE VERY SAME PEOPLE with the EXACT OPPOSITE VIEW that they have regarding life extension.

Crazy world.

Comment author: MartinB 12 March 2011 07:19:17PM 0 points [-]

I just realized an ambivalence in the first sentence. What I mean to say is that dying is an option that only a stupid person would actually choose. I do not mean that everyone below a certain threshold should die and prefer if simple no one dies. Ever.