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Losing a foot to gangrene is bad. Losing your life to gangrene is bad. If you could save the latter at the cost of the former, is it worth the cost? If it's the only way to end the danger to your greater wellbeing, is it acceptable
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Late Reply to a Comment [December 30th, 2010]:
I accept the possibility my memory is failing. No, that's a given. Likewise, I know I contradict myself, like multitudinous Walt Whitman's in battle with their doubles from a mirror universe.
Very well. I presume too much in declaring the dead can turn nowhere for aid. Should I argue for a reverse Pasqual's Wager, then? Nah. Let's just stick whether you value the loss dying inflicts on others. If that doesn't matter to you, well, there's little to add to that. Happy trails?
I am only sure of two things: uncertainty and change. Maybe also fatigue. Time...to lie.
Reply from giddybug:
"For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain would lie doon."
Reply from zastrazzi [December 31st, 2010]:
Nah. Let's just stick whether you value the loss dying inflicts on others. If that doesn't matter to you, well, there's little to add to that. Happy trails?
There is, I think, an important distinction to be made here. It is possible to attach a value to how others would be impacted by one's death, and still choose it. One shouldn't live their life for others ;)
Response [December 31st, 2010]: I hear that last claim a lot. I still see it as a self-contradiction.
Response from zastrazzi [January 4th, 2011]: I'm not seeing the contradiction...
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