| I do not really understand this perspective. Could you help me figure out where you're coming from? My current model for comments like this would suggest it would be made by one of two categories of individuals:
1) An innocent. A person who has not yet personally been touched by death, and who has not already put some thought into it. The full weight of death isn't real yet.
2) Someone who has at the very least brushed by the darker side side of things- maybe their parents, maybe friends, maybe their own disease, maybe depression... and they came out the other side with an attempt at a coping mechanism. Some form of spirituality, philosophy, or maybe just hardened nihilism, that let them look away, or 'accept' it. But the above is too general to really provide any insight. And to be clear, I am not upset at people like the above- I can understand how it happens, even if I strongly disagree with the results. I just have a very hard time squaring the above... approaches... with the special, horrible kind of sound someone makes when they are weakly screaming for their life and they are terrified that no one will be able to help them. I can't unhear that. And I can't help but try to listen for all those other people in the same position, thousands of times a day. My own perspective is simple: death doesn't have any special meaning, and it causes absurd levels of suffering. Any uses it has are so inefficient and unethical that any attempt by a human to emulate them would (rightfully) be considered comically evil. We can do better- unlike raw evolution, we have brains. |