Assume that everyone only lived a MAX of 30 years, meaning you died on your 30th birthday and there was no way around this.
Assume when you die there is NO SPIRITUAL aspect so your awareness/being ceases to exist and there are no universal consequences to anything you did in life.
You can increase your pleasurable experience of life by quickly gaining resources (stealing/etc.) so that you can have more options in a shorter amount of time. You could also do things that would otherwise have long-term effects on your health like drugs and eating… cake all the time, you get the point.
Questions: Does the existence of a limit mean you shouldn’t maintain yourself past the life expectancy?
Would laws that punish via long jail sentences or death penalties act as a deterrent to you? Does the threat or consequence of death mean anything considering you aren’t aware that you died or aware that you even existed in the first place?
What could deter someone from acting in such ways?
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God is dead and all things are permissible.
I think it would be a nice place for hedonists to live. Nothing would deter me. I would live my life not caring about tomorrow. Why would anyone bother to make anything? There would be nothing to steal. Have you seen the movie Logan’s run? in it when the people reach a certain age they are killed as a means of population control. There is a higher power directing everything (the government in that movie). The only way humans as a species could survive in a world like that is to be controlled like animals by some sort of totalitarian government.
It would kind of be like every person was a Sim…
Consider for a moment what reality is to the individual. It is a collection of sensory input and electrical impulses. Since the only way to truly understand something is to experience it, regardless of the lack of spiritual awareness, the very ego would (and does) revolt at the idea of its own demise. Meaning, since you need sensory input to be able to relate to an event, if said event was the complete lack of all input or even of existence, it would be nearly impossible to truly comprehend. Thus, the idea of death does not become less horrible just because it is inevitable.
I believe that in a world where we all had set life spans and at the end of said span there would be no “coming back” that people would concentrate harder on making a positive influence in the world. Sure, some people would be selfish and petty, but some people will be that way regardless of consequences. Without the idea of a spiritual “safety net” to catch us when we are less noble than we ought to be and make everything okay again, people would be held to a higher standard. Without the idea of “hell” or “heaven” people would be more inclined to make sure that all debts are settled in the here-and-now instead of some misty afterlife.
Would people be hedonistic? Without a doubt. Is hedonism intrinsically bad? No, not at all. Really, without the threat of diabetes, who does it hurt if you want to eat cake all the time? But the flip side of that would be a greater level of societal responsibility. Even without the threat of torture or death, taking minutes away from an already finite amount of time would be a huge deterrent! What is 5 years in prison when you have “forever”? Now imagine that you only had 7 years, 5 years is suddenly forever all by itself! Without the idea of an afterlife to make people behave themselves, rules, regulations, and laws would take the place of religious beliefs and instead of “hell” people would be much more scared of the much more real jailer!
Then also, people need an afterlife of some sort, so as your 30th birthday crept closer, you would begin to think about how you would be remembered. In a world with no heaven to wipe away your misdeeds the only immortality you will ever have is in how you are remembered by others. Most people would probably try to do good deeds or some great act so that their memory will always live on. People don’t need the threat of “god” to be good people, but sometimes god is a good excuse for doing the wrong thing, when the right one would have been just as easy.