Originally Posted by
Sandform
I ask you, D.V. members, if someone were to offer to kill in you in exchange for making the world a better place, and you knew the offer was valid, would you die if it meant that life would be better for the rest of the human race?
If after your death, no other human being would suffer or die, and instead they would live in luxury forever and ever?
If yes, what if the proposition were to change slightly, what if instead of "no death" the rest of the humans merely lived to at least the age of 60 and for the rest of human existence non of them suffered and instead lived in luxury?
What is worth giving up your life for?
The question can further be posed for those who believe in Hell, because I think it an interesting question. If there are in fact people in Hell (place of unceasing torment) for eternity and the person in charge of who goes to Hell and who doesn't said to you, and you knew the offer to be valid, "if you go willingly to Hell instead of to Heaven (or whatever other place of peace and contentment) for all of eternity I will let you take the place of all past and future people meant to be in Hell" and assuming that there are people in Hell who aren't rapists or murderers or killers, etc., just plain old nice people who for some unnaparent reason didn't meat the criteria for entering heaven, for example, lets pretend your mother or father is in Hell and you actually loved your parents, would you take the offer?
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