So, if you found out someone you love had died, you wouldn’t be sad?
Also, why is your time being less valuable more of a basis for sadness than not getting something for free? Losing an opportunity1 means that at least you can use your time on something else. Losing opportunity2 means that you are just out the benefit. Which would make you more sad: finding out that a concert that you wanted to go to is sold out, or buying tickets, but then losing them?
Seems to me death should be an exception here, I like being sad about death because it 1) signals to myself how important person x was to me 2) signals to everyone else thus 3)causing public group enforcing comotion, which I find emotionally valuable. all three stages in fact. sorry bad keyboardawful punctuation
So, if you found out someone you love had died, you wouldn’t be sad?
Also, why is your time being less valuable more of a basis for sadness than not getting something for free? Losing an opportunity1 means that at least you can use your time on something else. Losing opportunity2 means that you are just out the benefit. Which would make you more sad: finding out that a concert that you wanted to go to is sold out, or buying tickets, but then losing them?
Seems to me death should be an exception here, I like being sad about death because it 1) signals to myself how important person x was to me 2) signals to everyone else thus 3)causing public group enforcing comotion, which I find emotionally valuable. all three stages in fact. sorry bad keyboardawful punctuation