Turns out, it doesn't mean much to be a living person. Ideas are what matter to society, not the individual that spawns them. When you kill a revolutionaire, you are only killing a man.
Depends on your framing I guess. I live life as a person not as a society, and so being a person is quite meaningful to me. I don't know what it would be like to be an entity that experiences it otherwise and I'm glad for that.