so denial and vehement dismissal is the only way to react if confronted with it. — schopenhauer1

There's also the sublimated evasion, sort of what I'm doing, though I can't sincerely call it an evasion. Most people cling to life and avoid death most of the time.

My own suggestion (if you recall) was to make suicide easy and painless --and cleaner, because that's the tricky part for the suicide who wants to be polite and not leave a mess. This fits the individualism of our times.

Caring about suffering in the abstract is not our strong point. — schopenhauer1

There seem to be evolutionary reasons for that. As the likelihood of shared genes increases, so does the likelihood of bonding and cooperation. I feel the pull of the universal human family, but these days I can't forget that in-groups depend on out-groups. There's no us without them. Just as the body shits and externalizes, so does the group. If aliens attack, then we'll have some fiery humanism.

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