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    Challenges→Immortality is necessary to evade the futility of human achievement

    If futility is a psychological response rather than an objective feature of finite achievement, immortality addresses a misaligned expectation rather than a genuine deficiency in the achievements themselves.

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    Finite achievement(as used in existential philosophy)
    An accomplishment or success that has limits—it won't last forever, affects only certain people, or has a definite end point.
    Futility(the deeper existential problem immortality supposedly cannot solve)
    The feeling that nothing you do really matters or makes a difference in the long run.
    Genuine deficiency(as used in metaphysics)
    A real, actual lack or shortage of something important—as opposed to just thinking something is missing when it isn't actually a problem.
    Immortality(as what the ontological argument is trying to prove in this case)
    The idea that something lasts forever and never dies or ceases to exist.
    Misaligned expectation(as used in epistemology)

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    A hope or belief about how things should be that doesn't match what's actually reasonable or possible.
    Objective feature(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    A real quality or characteristic of something that exists independently of what anyone thinks or feels about it.
    Psychological response(as used in philosophy of mind)
    A feeling or reaction that happens in your mind, based on how you perceive or think about something, rather than something that's objectively true about reality.

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