willitpass
Don’t try to offer me help, I’ve tried everything
- Mar 10, 2020
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If that is the argument being made, that no one would want to deal with severe pain and would prefer death, people with chronic or terminal illnesses would not wish to fight the disease. Some are driven to suicide, but what about the people who get diagnosed with stage IV cancer that relapses multiple times and have to undergo extremely painful and taxing treatments and still say without an ounce of doubt that they are going to continue to fight. People with some of the most painful diseases and disorders in the world will say that they do not want to die and will do whatever it takes to live. Obviously it's not a one size fits all solution. Some people with painful conditions wish to die, some want nothing more than to live, some fit somewhere in the middle. But the argument that the potential for extreme pain alone would be enough to make everyone want to die is simply incorrect. Everyone perceives life differently and is fueled by personal beliefs and values. Suffering is even seen as a gift and something worth being proud of by some.I'm assuming their argument is that everyone would cone to that conclusion if they could feel 12/10 pain for just a few minutes and had enough foresight to understand that there's a small but realistic chance of them being trapped in that kind of pain (for years, decades) w/o the ability to commit suicide.
It's not that bad of an argument imo, it just doesn't take into account that pain is a subjective expierence that people can perceive in different ways, based on the neuro-chemical makeup of their brains. Hell, there's even masochists who find immense pleasure in agony; not sure how that fits into their equation
ETA Now that I tyoe it out, it sounds a lot less reasonable than I thought, given the unlikelyhood of such a scenario. I think most people would take the gamble, even if they knew how bad things csn get.