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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
Think that for every Klebold or Lanza, there are 3 or 4 other people who have left the reservation yet still have enough sanity to not shoot up a school because they still have a life of sorts with people to care about.
Tell those guys that life is not "real" and is, at its simplest, is a simulation in another existence and thus their existence is akin to to a character in a videogame.
And I'm not trying to sensationalize or over dramatize things. There are people who are pretty broken and definitely do not think like people who are "normal" but still hold on to their life as having value, and if logic, reason, and science say that this value is in fact completely empty and without value..
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If people found out, they'd still have the same life of sorts with people to care about. That life and loved ones wouldn't just go away at that point.
Logic, reason, and science don't say that a discovery like this would make life empty and without value. YOU are saying that. And you still haven't really said WHY something like that would remove the value from existence.
Life is still life, whether it's hosted in a big empty physical universe or in a complex universe computer sitting on some alien's workbench. Why should either be any less valid from the experience of those in it? We can't even define what "Real" is, so how could we be disappointed if "Real" turns out to be in an alien's computer?
When people proved that the world was round and not flat, did they start rioting because they were wrong about the nature of their world? How would this be different?
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