54321st Poster gets a cookie - mods are cute

[Firekitten]

What is so hard about LETTING US HAVE FUN

[Luxy]

I was calling him

[Firekitten]

This is why council of idiots used to exist

[Luxy]

IN THE COOKIE THREAD

[Geyde]

It’s less that I don’t want this discussion to exist and more that I’m mad at Luxy for suggesting thread deletion in an off topic thread made by a non mod that’s not official

It’s fucking pretentious and elitist as shit for no reason

[Firekitten]

FUN

here

Luxy bad

[Geyde]

And now I’m pissed
fuck

[Arete]

@Simon

Imagine being okay with the idea that everyone’s individual consciousness will be permanently erased a few decades after they come into existence

i said without an out. im fine with removing the natural life span cap but otherwise having people still be able to die, but thats not what immortality is, if your going by the traditional definition

(it is what immortality is by the technical definition, but most people go by immortality means being unable to die, but still able to feel pain)

plus imagine being like stuck permanently in a situation that would otherwise kill you quickly or instantly. like perpetually drowning, or being stuck in space.

@Arete

I think personally for me I’d rank my ordered preference for How The World Should Work as immortality-with-theoretical-outs > immortality-without-that >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mandatory death

if pain were opt-out or semi opt-out that would probably be good on net?

@Firekitten

People who want to live forever never tried living forever.

@Insanity

This is some deep stuff here.

Thank you guys for my life insight.

@Simon

id rather have mandatory death than no death at all, especially if there’s pain.
plus there’s the problem of space, but im going to assume that if we have the technology for immortality we have a way to deal with the space problem.

@Arete

Neither have people who don’t want to live forever

@Firekitten

Ah but you have forgotten one of the important lessons in man kind

Never wish for something unless you know the consequences

@Arete

I have a few years of experience with the consequences of being alive, and on reflection I prefer to continue doing so

@Firekitten

Yeah and guess what

The people who don’t want immortality also use their experience as their reasoning

@Firekitten

And none of us has been immortal yet

@Arete

wow gosh it’s almost like when the predominant societal message is that death is ~natural~ and ~necessary~ and ~really not such a tragedy after all~ and that there’s no use fighting it, people will absorb said messages regardless of whether they’re true

@Firekitten

“ consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we’ve got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it’s too late”

@Firekitten

Immortality is fantastic as long as you can always kill yourself in some way. Mandatory death is better then immortality forever.

@Arete

what right do you have to force death onto other people

@Firekitten

What right do you have to force immortality on other people?

@Arete

That’s a false equivalency

like how it’s obviously wrong to beat someone up and take their wallet in most circumstances, but it’s not unethical to walk up to a random person and give them money equivalent to the contents of the average wallet

@Geyde

Immortality is great when your lives are limited and you live by the clock

@Firekitten

Giving someone immortality and then not giving them a way to reverse it is cruel and unnecessary suffering.

@Geyde

But eventually you’ll want to end it
We aren’t hardwired to live forever

@Arete

Litten I have a question

in most circumstances, is murder wrong?

Here are some more good quotes

I sure am enjoying creating this compilation of QUOTES for the QUOTE THREAD

[Luxy]

This thread has been purged in the past for the exact same reason

[Geyde]

Does this discussion break forum rules

[Firekitten]

They didn’t care back then

[Firekitten]

See

Whenever I am like this vigorously defending sometning

it’s not that I think it’s bad, because usually I’ll let it go if it’s bad

but this, I cannot accept

[Geyde]

I’m going to reason my way through this so I don’t blow up

[Luxy]

Literally just move it to the correct thread

[Firekitten]

Don’t worry I can always riot if your reasoning skills don’t work

[Firekitten]

Don’t

Purge

Or

riot

[Luxy]

Omg hang on I can move them to another thread myself

[Firekitten]

We don’t like this

[Nerbins]

You know what I’ma make a poll to see everyone’s thoughts on this

• Shoulda stayed
• Shoulda been moved
• Shoulda been deleted entirely
• Indifferent

[Firekitten]

You literally added it IN FRONT OF THE ONGOING DISCUSSION WTF