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    It is not the case that Categorical desires give a person reason to live.

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    • 1.Schopenhauer and Buddhist traditions hold that categorical desires reflect attachment, which generates suffering rather than reasons for continued existence.
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    • 2.A desire that produces suffering upon frustration provides reason to extinguish the desire itself rather than to preserve the life that hosts it.
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    • 3.Therefore, categorical desires provide reasons to practice detachment, not reasons to live.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Categorical desires can be fulfilled posthumously through prior arrangements, making survival instrumentally unnecessary for their satisfaction.
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    • 2.If a desire's object can be secured without the desirer's continued existence, that desire does not constitute a reason to remain alive.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.A father's desire that his beloved daughter have a good start in life is not conditional on his remaining alive—it is categorical.
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    • 2.Because the father can see to his daughter's well-being if he survives, this categorical desire gives him reason to live.
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