AdHoc wrote:
dusk wrote:
AdHoc wrote:Because we take care of each other? And I would go to prison
Afaik they don't send dead people to prison and it would make a difference.
Your children most likely don't do a lot of care taking and once your parents are old the care taking goes another direction. They are expendable. Get rid of them is way more convenient and beneficial.
To be completely honest I've lost interest in this particular line of reasoning... I'm sure there is a point you are making, what is it?
The point is that pure cold logic simply doesn't apply. You don't do it because you fear prison or take care of each other as in a cost vs benefits calculations, but you do it because you care the taking care is just the result.
We are emotional beings and our emotional "sanity" means generally more to us than pure cold logic.
What you and bluethread are arguing is why not just turn off our emotions or avoid them as best as we can. You can also just throw Psychopharmaka down your throat until nothing matters anymore. It is not impossible nor even difficult but generally having emotions is something we do care about as being something that makes us human. We don't want that ourselves it is not a law or a holy book keeping us from doing so on a permanent basis (most of us at least).
