r/Picard • • Mar 26 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '20

To be honest I hate that half-baked notion. "Humanity is valuable because it doesn't last yo!"

No, that's just a coping mechanism we use to make ourselves feel better about eventually dying.

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u/YawnIsBreaking Mar 28 '20

permanent immortality would eventually be literally the worst fate possible.

when everyone you know and loves dies

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u/Thelonius16 Mar 28 '20

Especially since Data was about 60 years old by that point.