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Comment author: [deleted] 17 October 2014 07:26:59AM 1 point [-]

Even without taking into account cognitive biases and externalities, that argument only applies to people who don't believe in afterlife: if you thought that by killing yourself you would go to hell and by enduring shit thirty more years you would go to heaven, you'd think twice before picking the former.