Because your purpose is created by an international system that assigns the self an infinite value and if you die you will lose all value and while you will not care when you are actually dead, that is irrelevant for all the moments leading up to your death, the only thing in the universe that can or will care about your valuation assigns your life an infinite value.
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“Very good. We would have also accepted ‘Please dear god, just do it already’”
“Prove it."
- “no."
"What? why not?"
- “I don’t want to"
“that makes no sense!
- “too bad!”
This is from The Pianist, right? I need to watch that again.
Because your purpose is created by an international system that assigns the self an infinite value and if you die you will lose all value and while you will not care when you are actually dead, that is irrelevant for all the moments leading up to your death, the only thing in the universe that can or will care about your valuation assigns your life an infinite value.
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Oh, and I’ll kill you if you don’t.