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49 Post author: PhilGoetz 24 August 2015 08:13PM

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Comment author: entirelyuseless 30 August 2015 01:22:23PM 0 points [-]

Most people want to live, and so because they want to live they want to avoid dying.

But it would be more polite not to say things like "you don't actually have a reason for why you think you don't want to live forever," and just say "you don't have a reason not to want to live forever" or something similar.

Comment author: sentientplatypus 30 August 2015 04:01:27PM -1 points [-]

More polite, but probably less accurate. I could be wrong, but it was a conscious decision to word it that way