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To: Neocon who wrote (7400)	3/6/2001 12:59:56 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Either we persist as individuals, with a life history and memories, or we do not. If we do not, then most of the things we care about are transient and futile This is really an extraordinarily bizarre notion. Is it futile to take care of a child because that child will eventually die and cease to be aware of all that we did? I see no relationship whatsoever between transience and futility. If an action has consequence, it is not futile, even if it is transient. D we say that it is futile to eat because we know we will be hungry again tomorrow? Does the certainty of death make the avoidance of pain futile? We do not know what happens after we die. There is no way that we can know, except by dying. All of us will, sooner or later, and then we will know; I can imagine no greater waste of time than trying to figure it out before then. What we do is not futile because it has consequences here and now, and in the future of the world we inhabit here and now. That's what we know, and that's all that it makes sense to dispute.

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