X-Message-Number: 8880 From: Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 19:10:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: CryoNet #8870 - #8878 I was thinking today that cyronics and immortality aren't really the same things. An individual would still face the fact of existence or non-existence even if they wished to become frozen upon de-animation. Immortality is really something that is indestructible. Things like the universe/existence/reality and matter. As long as one has to do certain actions to sustain one's life then they are not really indestructible. I think this has important implications on the field of morality. If someone is immortal then why would they need ethics. Ethics being a code of values to live one's life by and values being that which one acts to gain and/or keep. A immortal being wouldn't need ethics because no matter what they do they would still be alive. I think this is important because without the need to live a moral life and therefore acheive happiness (emotional reward) what would the purpose of living forever be. Without happiness what is the point? Living just for living sake? Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8880