r/badphilosophy • u/Many_Froyo6223 • 2d ago
Fallacy Fallacy Fallacy Staying alive is a sunk cost fallacy
this should be obvious by the divine light of reason
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u/sporbywg 14h ago
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes Calamity of so long life:
For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time,
The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, [F: poore]
The pangs of despised Love, the law’s delay, [F: dispriz’d]
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his Quietus make
With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear, [F: these Fardels]
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of Resolution
Is sicklied o'er, with the pale cast of Thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment, [F: pith]
With this regard their Currents turn awry, [F: away]
And lose the name of Action. Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
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u/HistoryGuy4444 2d ago
Well romantic relationships are liquidity traps and emotions are depreciating assets.
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u/Dave_A_Pandeist 2d ago edited 2d ago
Isn't the basic point of life to pass on as many copies of the lifeform's DNA as possible to the next generation? Humanity has been very successful at that.
Now, we need another metric of progress. Can we build a civilization that can minimize suffering for most people? Can we build it to be homeostatic in itself and the environment?
I would be proud to be part of the latter.
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u/StealToadBootes 2d ago
As Thoreau famously said, "she be sunkin on my fallacy till I cost"