This is a dark query, but if it was proven beyond doubt that reincarnation as another sentient being was indeed what happens when we die...

...do you think such a discovery would lessen the weight behind things such as suicide, human euthanasia, and execution of criminals?

Would loss of human life, or the taking of human life, become less concerning to people if this were the case?

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BlueVeins · 22-25

A little, but not much. Human beings in organized societies are among the most privileged sentient life forms on this planet, and god only knows what things are like on other worlds. It's a cryin' shame, to go from grocery stores & doctors appointments to desperately foraging scraps of leaves & dying from bacterial infections. Even in developing countries or whatever, you at least have a good chance of being nursed back to health if you break your leg; the same can't be said about a frog in nature.

Eternity · 26-30, M

@BlueVeins fair enough, but people's tolerances seem to be proportionate to the environments they grow up in.

If death by diarrhea or catching a gringar tusk in your gloobob during a hunt in the wilds of Eungaroa is, has been, and always will be your reality, you'll simply be accustomed to that.

Nebula · 41-45, F

I think you would be greatly punished for those things in the next life

Peaceandnamaste · 26-30, F

I'm open to reincarnation but I'm not sure since I haven't died yet.

Energy can't be created or destroyed so we don't know yet.

Racism, sexism and classism wouldn't make sense if reincarnation is real.

Eternity · 26-30, M

@Peaceandnamaste i mean, they don't make sense even if it isnt.

If this is all we get why waste it being exclusive and hateful?

Peaceandnamaste · 26-30, F

@Eternity yeah true

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

It would lessen it for me.

Peaceandnamaste · 26-30, F

It depends. Maybe life and nature would be valued more and racism and sexism wouldn't make sense if you were a different race or sex in a previous life.

CorvusBlackthorne · M

That all depends.

The way I see it, if you end your life, you will be reincarnated as something even less desirable.

SW-User

I personally think it would take a lot of meaning out of death entirely.

Eternity · 26-30, M

@SW-User me too

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

It would upend everything . Life would become valueless .

Eternity · 26-30, M

@AthrillatheHunt would it? Your current existence would still be your one and only chance to be who you are.

SW-User

No, people would be hopeful about having a new life, new opportunity.

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