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Originally Posted by coberst
I have been studying such things as our dread of death and how we repress this subject of our mortality because it causes us great anxiety.
In my effort to comprehend what this anxiety might be in its raw form I have constructed what I think might be useful in that understanding.
Suppose that we were placed on a platform high above the ground and were required to live there. And suppose that there were no guard rails on the boundary of the platform.
Do you think that this might be a useful imagination to help us understand these matters?
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I think you've got it right, if I understand. The fact that death is there as a constant might change its significance? That's right. You become used to it.
I'm constantly amazed by the cavalier nature of mountain roads. In an urban setting, they would be considered at best an attractive nuisance, at worst disaster zones, and would have all kinds of signs and warnings. What is the thinking, if any, in the way they're left alone? Is the threat of death or dismemberment different in one setting than it is in another?
Would your platform be required by somebody to have rails?
--lemit
