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--- playground:playground [2018/06/13 12:07]
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 Oh, god, most depressing musical ever. Saw it and then wanted to go see something cheerful, like Titus Andronicus. The only good thing was I got to see Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff before they were famous.
+===== Highly Relevant and Not At All Hypothetical Academia=====
+(presented by Daieni, Daieni, Daieni, Aurelio, Penoro...)
+'Consider next the relations between the resulting people and the woman I love. I can assume that, since she loves me, she will love them both. But she could not give to both the undivided attention that we now give to each other.
+'In these and other ways the lives of the resulting people may not be quite as good as mine. This might justify my regarding division as being not quite as good as ordinary survival. But it could not justify regarding division as being much less good, or as being as bad as death. And we should note that this reasoning ignores the fact that these two lives, taken together, would be twice as long as the rest of mine.
+'Instead of regarding division as being somewhat worse than ordinary survival, I might regard it as being better. The simplest reason would be the one just given the doubling of the years to be lived. I might have more particular reasons. Thus there might be two life-long careers both of which I strongly want to pursue. I might strongly want both to be a novelist and to be a philosopher. If I divide, each of the resulting people could pursue one of these careers. And each would be glad if the other succeeds. Just as we can take pride and joy in the achievements of our children, each of the resulting people would take pride and joy in the other's achievements.'
+--'Why our identity is not what matters' by Derek Parfit

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