On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > Yet if you read it *even *more carefully, you will see that you did not simply write "more irrational", but you said "even more irrational", which implies you think there is at least some degree of irrationality in the belief in the afterlife. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
