This is exactly my intuition. When I think about âlives barely worth livingâ I imagine someone who is constantly on the edge of suicide. Then I think, well that seems really bad to me, but who am I to say that that personâs life is not worth living? If I canât look that person in the eye and say, âyour life is not worth livingâ (which I almost certainly canât do) , then how can I say that my world of âlives barely worth livingâ is made up of people with better lives than them?
Your paraphrasing of Dasguptaâs insights is helpful, and I think incorporating the negativity of death may alleviate some of my perceived Repugnancy of the aforementioned Conclusion.
This is exactly my intuition. When I think about âlives barely worth livingâ I imagine someone who is constantly on the edge of suicide. Then I think, well that seems really bad to me, but who am I to say that that personâs life is not worth living? If I canât look that person in the eye and say, âyour life is not worth livingâ (which I almost certainly canât do) , then how can I say that my world of âlives barely worth livingâ is made up of people with better lives than them?
Your paraphrasing of Dasguptaâs insights is helpful, and I think incorporating the negativity of death may alleviate some of my perceived Repugnancy of the aforementioned Conclusion.