Prioritizing values
Cary Cook
If there is no afterlife, then the most important thing to any person is having the greatest ratio of happiness over unhappiness until that person dies. You might prefer the terms “joy over sorrow”, or “well-being over non-well-being” or some other set of emotional opposites, but the terms don’t matter. What matters is admitting that something makes life either better or worse than non-existence.
If there IS an afterlife, then nothing is more important than being right. Better to be right and ugly than wrong and beautiful. Better to be right in a vacuum than wrong in the center of a stadium. Better to be right than to love or be loved. Even happiness is not more important than being right, because if one is happy but not right, then that happiness is based on a false foundation, and will necessarily collapse, causing more unhappiness than it was worth. If errors and/or illusions are necessary to make life appear worthwhile, then life is not worthwhile, and would be better off not existing.
Part of being right is admitting that I don’t know if any of this is true. But I think it is true, and that it is better to say it than not say it; also, that I don’t know where this is going, but I think going is better than not going.
Cary
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- Don
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