All societies are built with cognitive guardrails to prevent people from thinking clearly about mortality. It’s a first-class feature. Mythologize it, valorize it, spiritualize it, aestheticize it, but don’t let people think clearly about it.
This is stupid. We should change it.
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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.

