imagine you are in a room with two objects sitting on a table. you can only choose one device.
one would allow you to kill yourself, without pain. your family and friends will forget about you, and nobody will greive of kill themselves as a cause of you.
the other device would take you back to your old life, and your depression would be gone. however, your happiness would be fake, and you would be aware of that. you would never feel true joy, but you would never feel sad either.
which would you choose?
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Hands down, without a doubt, the first option.
Easily by far the first option.
I’ll take the red pill… Uhh…I mean the first option.
people people, you are forgetting the most important thing:
does the device recline, have armrest and cushions? and are peanuts handed out before takeoff?
the suicide device i can confirm does not provide free peanuts or a relaxing armchair experience
Peanuts? Oh, I thought you said something else. *sigh*
First one as long as I have time to order a pizza first…. last meal sort of request. Would anyone really pick the 2nd choice?
Option 1, without a doubt. Option 2 not so much.
i would take the first device too.
Wow, complex question – due to your inclusion about old life with “happiness being fake” and “joyless”…Please see long post I just wrote U under your “holidays” thread, regarding “clinical” depression. Sadly for me, right now I would choose Option1 – But, I don’t believe Option 2 even exists, because feeling “real joy” is a natural instinct for any healthy human – even a little baby or a frail 90 year old, and/or a person who has huge, real life problems…Except when a person’s brain is messed up due to a physical, aka “clinical” depression, removing “joy” from life is impossible. Therefore, my old life WITH Joy, clearly the option I and anybody, reasonably sane, would always choose. (And please seek medical help, because only a person who is clinically depressed, could/would believe that life could exist withOUT Joy + Happiness. It can’t, it’s as instinctual as breathing). Depression lies, and you (every human) is entitled to feel happy/joy, but a healthy brain (chemical structure) is necessary to feel those emotions.
1st option