I wouldn't risk my life even 4 my kids....
Don't care, even if the wife says stuff about protecting a bunch of idiots from super extreme dangerous predators.
shareYou're gonna die anyway, very soon in the grand scheme of things. Doesn't matter if it's 10 minutes from now, or 50 years from now. If death is inevitable, your life has no value whatsoever. Also, if you die of old age, chances are, your death will be long, drawn out, and very painful... like it is for most old people. Might even experience the hell of alzheimers and dementia.
A quick, nearly painless death at the hands of a super-predator that kills you in 1 second flat... I could think of worse ways to die. As in, almost every other way to die.
If thats your look on life, than having kids have no meaning either and saving them doesnt either.
shareBingo. Nothing has any meaning.
shareYou almost had me on the old age thing...
When my brother tells me that my good health means I'll outlive everyone and live to a very ripe old age.. I get depressed.
But you really aren't that nihilistic, are you? Nothing has any meaning?
I wouldn't even have to live to a ripe old age to be depressed if I felt that way. My whole life would be one big depression.
I can't imagine a more meaningful way to die than to save someone else...even if they were't my kids. Even if they were strangers.
I don't really know. I go back and forth depending on my mood. The main point I was making, though, is that if life inevitably ends, then nothing really matters. Things, thoughts, emotions, deeds whether good or bad, only "matter" in that they affect people, are remembered, and felt. If your life ends, everybody else whose life you affected ends, then eventually, even the memory of things you've done also ends.
Now, if we have immortal souls or some such, then things have the potential to have meaning... potential. They still might not really matter. Even concerning this, physical death is still inevitable (as far as I know) whether existence continues or not... so physical life STILL isn't necessarily something to be cherished.
The other point I was making with my original post, is that if I'm going to die anyway, and it's inevitable, I might as well die for a "good" cause like saving somebody. It's because I'm somewhat nihilistic that I would willingly give my life for another person... not in spite of it. Strange huh? I also have a miserable life. I'd give you my last spot on the life raft because I kinda wanna die anyway.