Camus' "the only serious philosophical question is that of suicide" is something like the P≠NP proposition of philosophy == "Choosing life is better than choosing death".
Most people assume it is true and move along to other questions. Few work on the proposition itself.
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It's just a very literal version of survivorship bias.
Dead people don't tweet about their philosophy.
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Hmm except that all of traditional religious philosophy is concerned with survival rather than self-actualization (which is a relatively modern concern of organized religion, post ~1800s). That's why I excluded it. They usually land on some sort of duty-driven imperative to live
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Are you sure it was Camus? I thought this is more or less what what Red was saying to Andy Dufresne.
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I've amused myself more and more by thinking of "the living" as a sort of ingroup, like... obnoxious vegan crossfitters
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In a way the punishment for suicide seems to me awfully similar to the warrior’s punishment for desertion. It’s seen by many as an abdication of moral responsibility, an insult to the community, and/or to God or creation.
These are some touchy matters that are hard to talk about
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