Thank you for taking the time. It’s natural to seek the lesser, what is the lesser?
For me, death would be the lesser. When faced with death, we fight at our absolute hardest to stay alive.
I understand what you are saying, a little bit, thank you.
The meaning of this quote from Paths of Glory for me is, it is not death we fear, we fear the pain and suffering…
I think the point is, we should not fear death in the face of doing the right thing, because we can die for a good cause without feeling fear, because it’s just pain.
So to speak: It is easier forgetting the rejection, than talking to the girl…
This is a false dichotomy, you can fear both death and pain. In this case the quote starts with the premise that you’re dying anyway. A much more interesting question is 100% death by machine gun VS 80% chance of death by stabbing. Would you risk the 20% chance of survival in the face of massive pain and perhaps being crippled? Or would you just take the fast death?
I’d like to think I’d take my chances with living. In which case the fear of death > fear of suffering (with high chance of death)
Separately: dying for a “good cause” is a highly subjective opinion. I wouldn’t do it, except maybe out of pure love for a family member, in that 1/1000000000 hypothetical of taking a bullet. Doesn’t really happen in practice that you get to trade your life for another, they’ll just be shot already by the time you react
Thank you for taking the time. It’s natural to seek the lesser, what is the lesser?
For me, death would be the lesser. When faced with death, we fight at our absolute hardest to stay alive.
I understand what you are saying, a little bit, thank you.
The meaning of this quote from Paths of Glory for me is, it is not death we fear, we fear the pain and suffering…
I think the point is, we should not fear death in the face of doing the right thing, because we can die for a good cause without feeling fear, because it’s just pain.
So to speak: It is easier forgetting the rejection, than talking to the girl…
This is a false dichotomy, you can fear both death and pain. In this case the quote starts with the premise that you’re dying anyway. A much more interesting question is 100% death by machine gun VS 80% chance of death by stabbing. Would you risk the 20% chance of survival in the face of massive pain and perhaps being crippled? Or would you just take the fast death?
I’d like to think I’d take my chances with living. In which case the fear of death > fear of suffering (with high chance of death)
Separately: dying for a “good cause” is a highly subjective opinion. I wouldn’t do it, except maybe out of pure love for a family member, in that 1/1000000000 hypothetical of taking a bullet. Doesn’t really happen in practice that you get to trade your life for another, they’ll just be shot already by the time you react
I think the quote is outside the realm of rational discourse.