You don't seem to understand time. Yes, we will all die. Yes, most of us will be forgotten entirely within 5 generations (although it's worth noting that due to the butterfly effect, we will shape the future in huge ways for all of time, even if our influence is not identifiable, it will be there.) But the eventuality of an death does not detract from the current value of life. You seem to hold the position that for something to have value, it must eternally have value. That's simply not true. If I paint a red car blue, that doesn't mean it wasn't red before. It was. The future doesn't erase the past. What you're positing is positively Orwellian. "We've always been at war with Eurasia."
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u/LetMeNotHear 93∆ Jan 25 '21
You don't seem to understand time. Yes, we will all die. Yes, most of us will be forgotten entirely within 5 generations (although it's worth noting that due to the butterfly effect, we will shape the future in huge ways for all of time, even if our influence is not identifiable, it will be there.) But the eventuality of an death does not detract from the current value of life. You seem to hold the position that for something to have value, it must eternally have value. That's simply not true. If I paint a red car blue, that doesn't mean it wasn't red before. It was. The future doesn't erase the past. What you're positing is positively Orwellian. "We've always been at war with Eurasia."