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Bait: Page Fifty-Eight
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Welll, if it’s jumping into something that absolutely WILL kill you, be it a squid monster or a volcanic caldera full of molten lava – then perhaps it’s best for the people insane enough to do that – to go ahead and do that. Preferably before they breed.
How Darwinian of you, Galane. If she’s a good third waver she probably denies any validity to evolutionary biology. And when she finally defines death as a social construct then she and her postmodern colleagues will have finally gone full circle back to being a pre-Enlightenment religious cult.
Or perhaps Daphne is just a good Humean: “‘Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. ‘Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me. ‘Tis as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledg’d lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than for the latter.” (Hume unsurprisingly faced his own death with a great deal of equanimity.)
For the record, I do not question the lady’s sanity.
I just regret the circumstances that lead her to conclude that a course of action which is certain death is the only way she could validate her existence.