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Ultimate Meaning | Rivka Weinberg

Brain in a Vat

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The Importance of Suicide

If a project is purposeless, you stop the project. Why not say that? I think that's a real if you're a question, actually. And I don't think that it is a fitting response to this problem, but it also puts a stop to everything else you're engaging with. So one of the reasons I think not to commit suicide is the sadness and the anguish you'll cause to other people. If you would cause no anguish to other people, I think your reason is much reduced,. Quite possibly to almost nothing, unless you would cause anguish to yourself. But being sad about not having ultimate meaning doesn't compel you to kill yourself.

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