“Another reason is that it is not clear how the meaningfulness of life is affected by duration. More of something of value can be more valuable, but if something is worthless in the first place, how can increasing its quantity transform it into something worth having? An eternal life might turn out to be the most meaningless of all. What would be the point of doing anything today if you could just as easily do it tomorrow? As Albert Camus put it in The Plague, ‘The order of the world is shaped by death.’ The very fact that one day life will end is what propels us to act at all.”
No comments:
Post a Comment