When we consider a death, the emotional reaction to it is based somewhat on the loss of potential, right?
For example, we tend to feel much more sad for 2 year old dying than a 96 year old. The 2year old has a brain that feels, but none of us can remember when we were two. But most importantly their entire life was stolen from them by death
The 96 year old had their time, and so we don’t feel as bad. There isn’t such a loss of potential life experiences
I dunno, it just seems weird that our emotional empathy grows backwards from 99 but shrinks quite a bit at x weeks old in utero or w/e. It’s still there, but greatly lessened for most
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