Jason Resch wrote:
On Sunday, December 21, 2014, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>> On Sunday, December 21, 2014, Bruce Kellett
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> What's wrong with oblivion?
>>
>> Most legal systems punish murder more than any other crime, and
those that have the death penalty reserve it for the worst offenders.
Most criminals know that if they threaten a person with death they are
more likely to comply than with other threats. Most religions, in the
absence of any evidence, promise an afterlife. I think this all supports
the fact that it is a common human trait to fear oblivion, even if as
John says it's just a matter of taste.
>>
>> Stathis Papaioannou
>
> It might be a common human trait to fear oblivion, but it is even
more irrational than belief in an afterlife.
Why do you think belief in an afterlife is irrational?
If you read more carefully, you will see that I did not claim that. What
I said was that fear of oblivion was more irrational than belief in the
afterlife. That leaves open the question of whether belief in the
afterlife is irrational or not.
Bruce
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