That’s your opinion. I haven’t actually posted enough details about my stance for you to judge, just the summary conclusion. I’ve thought deeply enough about this that I don’t consider it one of my glib spaghetti-on-the-wall thoughts.
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This may have been better for Mastodon.
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Yes I’m familiar with that and several other similar examples of mortality salience cognition patterns. They’re always on the margins of society.
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Cultures that think too much about mortality can be quite nasty
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Which ones are you thinking off? I don’t think any cultures actually think about it. They mostly just engage it in unhealthy ways like glorifying honor suicide without genuinely examining justified euthanasia for example.
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Just a guess but I suspect this is a feature, not a bug. imo society likely wouldn't survive such introspection. Per
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I think such paternalism is a good thing for 10% of fragile people, but is applied to 90%
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Denial of death by Ernest Becker is all about this.
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What you preach is in theory dangerous, in practice, impossible.
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how so?
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