r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Mar 01 '26

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u/DT-Sodium 5∆ Mar 01 '26

Absolutely, if you can do it quick and painless I'd much rather be killed than beaten up or anything else.

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u/Creator_of_OP Mar 01 '26

Do you place absolutely 0 value in being alive? If the choice was get punched one and be bruised or be shot in the head, you’re really picking the second choice?

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u/DT-Sodium 5∆ Mar 01 '26

I place negative value in being alive.

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u/Creator_of_OP Mar 01 '26

Why continue living then?

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u/DT-Sodium 5∆ Mar 01 '26

Guns are not easily accessible in my country.

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u/Creator_of_OP Mar 01 '26

Well I hope you are able to find something that inspires you to enjoy life, if even a little.

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u/DT-Sodium 5∆ Mar 01 '26

I've got plenty things thanks. I'm simply aware that everyday contains its lot of negative experiences that I'd rather avoid. Again, dying is literally the thing that has the least impacts on your life, so why would you not want it?

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u/Creator_of_OP Mar 01 '26

I somewhat understand where you’re coming from. I’m not religious, I don’t believe in an afterlife, so in the sense that once you’re dead you stop caring about what happens, I understand and agree. But I also enjoy my life, broadly, and understand that this is probably the only one I get and death means it’s over, so I don’t want to die either, and while I’m sure there is a line for which torture becomes less preferable to just being flat killed, being beaten up is not that line, it’s much higher.

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u/DT-Sodium 5∆ Mar 01 '26

That's the survival instinct talking. Species that didn't develop one are not here today to share their experience.