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    Reminding ourselves that our situation also has a good si... — Carmelics
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    Reminding ourselves that our situation also has a good side provides some consolation against condemning the human condition.

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    • 1.Our condemnation of death is based on the assumption that more life would be good.
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    • 2.If more life would be good, then our situation has a good side, namely the life we do have.
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    • 1.Consolation derived from reframing deprivation as partial benefit commits the Stoic fallacy of conflating acceptance with genuine remedy.
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    • 2.Schopenhauer argues that the value of life cannot be established by pointing to pleasures within it, since suffering constitutes its fundamental character.
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    • 3.A consolation that requires denying the asymmetry between existence and non-existence provides psychological relief but no philosophical justification for the human condition.
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    • 1.Nagel's deprivation account entails that the goodness of existing life and the badness of death are incommensurable, not offsetting, values.
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    • 2.If the badness of death consists in the absence of future goods rather than in the quality of life lived, then pointing to life's good side addresses a categorically different harm.
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    According to the harm thesis, death is, at least sometimes, bad for those who die, and in this sense something that ‘harms’ them. It is important to know what to make of this thesis, since our response itself can be harmful. This might happen as follows: suppose that we love life, and reason that since it is good, more would be better. Our thoughts then turn to death, and we decide it is bad: the better life is, we think, the better more life would be, and the worse death is. At this point, we are in danger of condemning the human condition, which embraces life and death, on the grounds that i...

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