That is really overthinking it, to me. We value life individually and as a society, it really doesn't have to go that far to get into the base concepts of our species. The preservation of life is a central tenet of literally every culture on Earth, it is the reason we have culture and society in the first place. The idea that this founding principle of basically all civilization is "made up " is just goddamn infuriating.
Uhhh, no. Preservation of life is a modern convenience. That idea you are toying with in your head is the modern adaptation of the 'us' surviving at the cost of 'you'. Historically, almost all ancient cultures practiced violent and wanton genocide or at least bred away other societies wholesale. Not that I disagree with the idea of saving life all else being equal, but to say that civilization grew around some bullshit fantastical falsehood thatanyancient culture did not violently annihilate others is just ignorant. Well, OK, maybe some we don't know of did. They all died and we never heard about it, though. Point being you have to get pretty close to year zero (Christ having nothing to do with it, mostly just trade and slave labor dependence at that point) to even make that claim, and the human race is far older than that.
Hey bro you fought the good fight. But when you're arguing against someone who thinks that preservation of life is a modern convenience and not the common trait in all evolutionarily successful life forms you can only do so much.
Nothing worse than death? You lack imagination, Chaos.
A moderate in a sea of extremists, floating on the bullshit created by the desire of others to stretch every idea to the extent of incredulity.
