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I'm not sure if that's completely true. Or, to put it another way, you could apply that reasoning to just about any human desire.
"You don't want to eat, you just want the hunger to stop."
"You don't want money, you just want your poverty to end."
"You don't want friends, you just want the loneliness to stop."
And so on. Every time we say that we "want" something, what we really mean is that we're in an undesirable situation, and seek to correct it. So to the same extent that I can say that I want anything at all, I do want to die.
"You don't want to eat, you just want the hunger to stop."
"You don't want money, you just want your poverty to end."
"You don't want friends, you just want the loneliness to stop."
And so on. Every time we say that we "want" something, what we really mean is that we're in an undesirable situation, and seek to correct it. So to the same extent that I can say that I want anything at all, I do want to die.
I remember in Ethics class, we did an anonymous quiz- the last question said:
"If there was a button that would kill every human being on the planet-including yourself and all of your loved ones-and restore the world to it's natural order, would you press it?"
I was apparently the only person in the class who believed that "Yes." was the only correct answer for that question.
If it were that easy-- and the planet would survive-- I would do it without a second thought.
There is no easy way out, though.
We just have to learn to make the best out of things.
"If there was a button that would kill every human being on the planet-including yourself and all of your loved ones-and restore the world to it's natural order, would you press it?"
I was apparently the only person in the class who believed that "Yes." was the only correct answer for that question.
If it were that easy-- and the planet would survive-- I would do it without a second thought.
There is no easy way out, though.
We just have to learn to make the best out of things.
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