Another question

J (age 5) and I were working in the front yard (okay - mostly me).

I moved my 100lb tool box and found that I had crushed a small lizard. It was a quick death.

J looked at the crushed lizard - its tail had been severed. The tail was twitching around on the driveway.

He asked why the tail was moving when it wasn't attached. I explained.

We threw the lizard into the bushes (before he asked to keep it). I left the tail on the driveway.

A few minutes later after studying the tail he asked, "Dad, have scientists studied why this happens?"

Then, "Are they still studying this? Like now? Or have they figured it all out yet? Can we look up a website on this?"

Existence and the blinding effect

Start at the beginning. Existence is generally a good thing.

We're born naked, ignorant, and unable to care for ourselves. Its downhill from there for most of humanity.

But existence itself is rarely seen as being worse than non-existence.

Non-existence is considered when extreme pain lasts too long and there are little to no options. It evokes rare consideration.

But pain is relative. It's how humanity has survived for so long. Its a kind of individual ignorance that has a blinding effect on most of humanity keeping it from self destructing.

Without this blinding effect an individual's existence would be torture.

But such individuals do exist.

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