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There is... to me at least little difference. Obviously the reason we love 'life' isn't necessarily for the sake of not being dead, for instance many people would probably (if the experience of life was terrible enough) prefer to be dead, life is made great by all the experiences we can have...

The thing is... if abortions are no worse than me saying "fuck jesus" then why don't you crusade to stop me saying "fuck jesus" just as much as you crusade against this? If you 'don't know' which sin is worse than the other than who are you to go ahead and just decide one is more important than...

want2bdifferent: Do you believe that it's any worse for this woman to have an abortion than for people to have sex out of marriage, or not believe in jesus?

You don't like drinking milk anywhere near as much as you like living, plus you know you can always get more milk and it's easy to cope with the fear because you know you can always just fulfill yourself with something else... in the real world your hypothetical makes no sense. If you loved milk...

If you really, really, really liked drinking milk then I do think you would fear its absence, I'd say whatever worries you have about losing your milk in most cases though are fairly small and thus insignificant to even be called a 'fear'. I think it's actually a fairly wide definition i.e...

All that death is, is the absence of life. If you 'like living' you 'fear death/the absence of living'. If I like being rich, I fear not being rich. If I like being with my girlfriend, I fear her dumping me. If I like sex, I fear never being able to get it up. If I like my mother, I fear my...

Tbh in a way I do kinda agree with you dan, most people are apathetic about death, I think for the most part we don't think about it/have many modes of coping with it thus don't care - There are moments however which shake us to think about it, such as maybe a near death experience or whatever...

I don't think you'd be ok with it as the date got closer.

What is death if it isn't a lack of living? I can't explain it as anything else. So... if not living is the problem, the problem is death. I've heard similar views expressed a few times and I'm trying to work out exactly what it is people are trying to get around, what the issue is with death...

See to me I don't see death as anything other than the lack of life so while I did acknowledge in my post perhaps that other people might not equate a lack of life with death, I personally can't see any actual reasons why they cannot.

You don't want it to happen and you think it would be devastating... seems to fit that to me. I don't think you're necessarily anxious about death (though I think it lays dorment in you) but I do think faced with situations which could directly lead to death i.e. terminal illness, falling off a...

What is fear? Fear for her death... Why? It is a certainty, like your own. The time's tomorrow - are you ready? Death is a certainty for your mother. I don't think there's anything more absurd than to be afraid of it, as if that would prevent it from happening..

nihilistic arguments for not fearing death don't exactly work for me... I value life so I fear losing it.

Devastated and you wouldn't want it to happen? That's pretty much the definition of fear. To have a fear isn't to have an anxiety, which is perhaps what you're thinking of. I'm afraid of losing everything I have in this world, I want to keep it... I don't want to stop experiencing life. I can...

I refuse to believe that upon receiving notice of say... terminal, untreatable cancer you wouldn't be afraid. That as your wheeled into the surgery room for some extremely risky surgery that you wouldn't be afraid. What are you afraid of? Death... the unknown...

"When you know it's your time to go" ? They will either a) Never think it's their time to go or b) Suffer some sort of painful illness from which they see no other respite. Immortality can be conceptually manifested in so many ways (though I admit it seems impossible, I figure we're moving into...

Illness is a consequence of us living in a reality where both human beings and germs have evolved together, fighting for survival. This fits perfectly in with a naturalistic, darwinian explanation of life - It makes little sense within your fantasy world, no matter what sort of confabulation you...

this person's full of shit, they are afraid of dying. You could 'LIVE LIFE TO THE MAX' all you want but I think unless you suffered a serious illness or whatever you'd always want more, it's hardwired into us to want to live.

freddie mercury, why not?

it was a fucking terrible movie, fuck off.