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[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's like the trolley dilemma. Killing either of you would be bad. But most people would rather kill the man and protect the woman than the other way around.

Your kids can't make you immortal. Are you your kids? You could say so metaphorically, the same way they say you die when the last person who remembers you dies. But there are much better ways to make your mark on the world, if you care, but there's really no reason to. Frankly I think it's better to not bring more poor souls into this world. Especially in my case, given my genetics, it would just be cruel. The path that leads to life is not of the flesh or this world.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Your kids can't make you immortal. Are you your kids?

Your kids are a part of you. It's interesting, my niece's father wasn't in her life, but she has some of his mannerisms and personality traits. It's the closest we can get to immortality. Living forever as yourself just isn't in the cards.

Have you noticed everything exists to pass on its information, to preserve it in some form. It is written into everything living, a biological imperitive to pass on genetic code. The big question is not what is our purpose, because obviously that is the business of preserving, possibly refining genetic information, but what the hell point does that serve.

Maybe we sent our civilization across the cosmos and we're unpacking, rebuilding from some genetic Huffman table. Just send the least amount (lowest cost) of information required to recreate everything, a seed, and wait.

I can't help but feel the phenomenon of the hive mind is important. We see it, it's usually not good, but it's evolution. Imagine what people could accomplish if the hive mind could be used for good, and not just being an asshole on the internet.

It's like the trolley dilemma. Killing either of you would be bad. But most people would rather kill the man and protect the woman than the other way around.

If you pick me I'll lock you in a closet and forget about you for a couple days. That actually sounds kind of fun to me. Or, I don't know if you heard about the couple who abducted a girl and locked her in a small chamber under their bed off and in for years. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9428232/girl-box-under-bed-raped-tortured/

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You can make your name remembered but that doesn't give you one drop of immortality. You cannot become them, therefore you cannot achieve immortality through them. Furthermore, immortality is not impossible. That's a lie to make you reincarnate, as are heaven and hell and almost every afterlife fairy tale.

I don't give a flying fuck about what our biological purpose is, or what devilution's goals are. I've reached the inevitable conclusion that nothing good comes from the flesh. At best, it's vanity. At worst...may both of us never find out.

If you pick me I'll lock you in a closet and forget about you for a couple days. That actually sounds kind of fun to me.

Aww, won't you tie me up in there?

Or, I don't know if you heard about the couple who abducted a girl and locked her in a small chamber under their bed off and in for years. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9428232/girl-box-under-bed-raped-tortured/

Please don't rape or torture me.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can make your name remembered

It's not about them remembering you.. you are the sum of all the genetic confluences that have occurred over the last six million years to your family right up to you here now. It some small way, a part of even those dirty ape looking scavenger ancestors at the very beginning still live on in you. You wouldn't be you without them. Like a hash key.

Aww, won't you tie me up in there?

I have some nice neon yellow paracord and I was a boy scout.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would still be me without them. If I were to switch bodies with someone, am I now them? Or am I still me only with a different meat costume? Likewise if I don't have one at all, do I no longer exist? No, as a matter of fact I have much greater potential for self-actualization. Finally making genetics and luck irrelevant. And my dead ancestors are still dead, even if they may have passed down genes to me. If you get hand-me-downs from your brother and he dies, does he become you?

I have some nice neon yellow paracord and I was a boy scout.

Okay nice 😋 Don't even lock the door. If you need to lock it you didn't tie me up well enough. Will I be gagged too? Will I be fed at least? I'm guessing I'm not allowed to use the bathroom right? Will I have to pee in my pants? Will you put me in a chair so I can't roll and jump around?