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    If personal identity requires continuity of consciousness... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Eternal torture would be more pleasant than ceasing to exist

    If personal identity requires continuity of consciousness, annihilation destroys the very subject who might evaluate or escape suffering, making it a worse outcome by the agent's own future-regarding preferences.

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    Future-regarding preferences(in ethics and decision theory)
    Desires and choices based on what you want to happen to yourself in the time ahead.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    annihilation(as what the self seeks to escape through)
    Complete destruction or elimination; ceasing to exist entirely.
    continuity of consciousness(philosophy of mind / temporal experience)
    The property of conscious experience whereby it spans more than a single instant, enabling unified perception of temporally extended phenomena
    personal identity

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    (Philosophy of personal identity)
    The relation of sameness holding between a person existing at one time and something existing at another time, analyzed here in terms of psychological continuity

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