The philosopher Samuel Scheffler has recently presented an important though experiment about the importance of immortality. Imagine, he proposes, we learn that soon after our natural death a gigantic asteroid will collide with the earth, destroying all human life. What are the consequences? Our own life will not be shortened. But it appears that how More

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