Yet human routinely sacrifice their own lives for the good of other (see : firefighters, soldiers, high mountain emergency rescuers, etc.). The X-risk argument is more abstract but basically the same.
A lot of our moral frameworks breakdown once immortality is a real choice. Sacrificing your own life for the own good can be reframed as dying a little earlier.
Many of these people go in knowing there’s a small chance of death. A lot of them would probably change their minds if it was a suicide mission (except a minority).
If the 5 year mortality rate of firefighting was 100%, how many would still do that job?
Yet human routinely sacrifice their own lives for the good of other (see : firefighters, soldiers, high mountain emergency rescuers, etc.). The X-risk argument is more abstract but basically the same.
A lot of our moral frameworks breakdown once immortality is a real choice. Sacrificing your own life for the own good can be reframed as dying a little earlier.
Many of these people go in knowing there’s a small chance of death. A lot of them would probably change their minds if it was a suicide mission (except a minority).
If the 5 year mortality rate of firefighting was 100%, how many would still do that job?