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    Challenges→The asymmetry in our attitudes toward prenatal and posthumous nonexistence shows that we are more concerned about the indefinite continuation of our lives than about their indefinite extension.

    A preference shaped by irrational evolutionary contingency provides no philosophical justification for concluding that continuation is what we are more deeply concerned with.

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    • 1.Evolutionary origins of preferences don't establish their normative authority or reveal our true values.
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    • 2.A preference's contingent causal history is distinct from whether it deserves rational endorsement.
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    • 3.We regularly reject evolved preferences (tribalism, status-seeking) as poor guides to what matters morally.
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    • 1.All human preferences arise from evolutionary contingency; rejecting this undermines all value claims universally.
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    • 2.Survival preferences persist across cultures precisely because they reflect deep, rational concerns about flourishing.
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    • 3.The claim assumes we can identify 'deeper concerns' independent of our actual, evolved motivational structure.
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