allfoak
Alchemist
What difference does it make? When I'm dead I'm dead no consequences. In fact, you have no basis for judging me either based upon the OP.
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Why would you not have to take responsibility for it?
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Yes. It can make you have more sense of "you are not alone" when you have peers that will go through the same. It also hightens your sense of purpose and responsibility to other people you care for who are younger than you. You get that lesson of "everything changes" and you start getting comfortable with things you dont know about. There is more observing of ones plsce in life. For me, it made me realize I am not "special." I die just as the animals and plants and trees. Why I am is a useless question because it tries to pin pur existence and thinking we "know" for one more second. When we live without a destination (of course, a plan is helpful) then whichever wrong turns you consider wrong you make will not take you off from your destination.
You appreciate you have. Accept what you believe regardless if it can be proven. Use what you have to survive until your body ways "lights out."
Its hard to do but my goal is to get to that understandin of suffering and karmma so I dont need a destination just understanding and applying lessons as life goes on.
A couple of centuries of philosophical and psychological theory would seem to dispute that there's no basis for morality.
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
I decide on what basis I can judge you. Want to know why? Because I am me, and you are not me. If you really have no problem with just up and killing a bunch of people, you have some serious problems.
No. I think that if there was never any idea of more to come there would be many more suicides.
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
And yet you seem unable to entertain one simple hypothetical.
A Vestigial Mote
Well-Known Member
In many ways I feel that it helps one not to fear EITHER death or life. Get out there and do what you want. What is [truly] holding you back?
allfoak
Alchemist
if you say so
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
If death was an absoulute , then how did we even get here in the first place?
Life would have been impossible, yet here we are. Still alive. ;0)
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
That is not really the question being asked, remember it says "Can the view". Clearly some people view death as final, so how does that view impact them? The question of if death is or is not absolute is not the question being asked here.
It is amazing how hard it is for some of you to look through beliefs that are not your own.
By whose metric?
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
By mine and any other person with a sense of decency and a conscience. Are you really suggesting you could just become a serial killer? When people make those types of arguments it seems like they are arguing that religion breeds sociopaths.
If ever I have done anything illegal it wasn't post-life that worried me. LOL
I couldn't, but this is all totally subjective. There's nothing intrinsically stopping you from being a serial killer - some people might think it's perfectly OK to become a serial killer and just go for it.
I think that to want to be a serial killer is extremely rare, if at all. I think serial killers start as angry, hateful, and abnormal people who kill once and like it so they do it again.
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
If morality was so personalized then it would not exist. A lack of a conscience is considered an abnormal defect, which means most people have one. I don't care how you argue that conscience came to be, it is something the normal person has.
Not to mention that serial killing is very illegal. Likely to get a death sentence, and that is a strong deterrent for anyone who believes this is the only life you get.
So in what sense do you think morality exists objectively then?
Laws change! In many countries killing people is legal if the government pays you for it and tells you who to kill.
And people who do that are serial killers.
I mean executioners etc. I agree, they are serial killers.