Is this whole life thing even ethical?
I’ve been sitting here thinking about the whole philosophical part of life and how time isn’t linear. And then it hit me.
If we choose to forget and to suffer in order to learn and grow…is that technically even ethical? I can understand wanting to experience life and all its suffering and love, etc. That’s not the part that’s bothering me.
I’m wondering how it’s acceptable to sign away your own right to remember away…and say that no matter how much you regret the decision, you can’t leave. You can’t choose to suffer less. You can’t check out if it ends up being too much. You can’t even get a hint of what’s on the other side to get you a little extra motivation or drive to keep moving forward through the tough times.
Thankfully, I’m not someone who’s severely depressed. But when I think of people who are…how is their higher self allowed to make a choice like that? I don’t know how to explain it.
This whole thing is kind of like signing an agreement to have someone torture you and giving them the right to not stop even if you change your mind and beg them to when you realize that getting beat to a pulp is even worse than you initially thought it would be. If your torturer didn’t stop even when you said enough…I don’t think that would hold water in a court because it’s still unethical. Even if you signed a contract with a torturer. Common decency says that you should be allowed to not be tortured if you change your mind in the midst of getting your teeth pulled out with pliers. Granted, it’s unethical to beat someone at all…but that’s the closest “life can be torture” example I can think of.
So, while I understand the concept of us knowing it’s what you want when you’re in a more “intelligent” level of thinking…isn’t that still a little…wrong on some level? You’re not technically the same “person” when you’re here. You’re being filtered and “nerfed” by being in a body.
It’s easy to say “yeah, I’ll do it” when you’re not currently experiencing the trauma. But, once you’re in the trauma, I don’t know how I feel about not being able to say “ok, nevermind. I don’t want this anymore”.
Is this making any sense? I feel like I might not be explaining this very well.