I’ve heard hell is pretty bad. I feel like after some amount of time in hell I would break down like people who are being tortured often do and tell God “I don’t even care, take me straight to purgatory if you have to, anything is better than this!” TBH, I feel like that might even happen at the end of the first day. (But I’d regret it forever if I never even got to check heaven out at least once.) So it seems extremely unlikely that I would ever end up “accidentally” spending an eternity in hell. d:
You’re taking this too literally. The point is that you’re immortal, u(day in heaven) > u(day in neither heaven nor hell) > u(day in hell), and u(2 days in heaven and 1 day in hell) > u(3 days in neither heaven nor hell).
You don’t even need hell for this sort of problems; suppose God offers you to either cash in on your days in heaven (0 at the beginning) right now or wait a day after which he will add 1 day to your bank and offer you the same deal again. How long will you wait? What if God would halve the additional time for each deal so you couldn’t even spend 2 days in heaven, but could get arbitrarily close to it?
I’ve heard hell is pretty bad. I feel like after some amount of time in hell I would break down like people who are being tortured often do and tell God “I don’t even care, take me straight to purgatory if you have to, anything is better than this!” TBH, I feel like that might even happen at the end of the first day. (But I’d regret it forever if I never even got to check heaven out at least once.) So it seems extremely unlikely that I would ever end up “accidentally” spending an eternity in hell. d:
In all seriousness, I enjoyed the post.
Alas, the stereotypical images of Heaven and Hell aren’t perfectly setup for our thought experiments! I shall complain to the pope.
You’re taking this too literally. The point is that you’re immortal, u(day in heaven) > u(day in neither heaven nor hell) > u(day in hell), and u(2 days in heaven and 1 day in hell) > u(3 days in neither heaven nor hell).
You don’t even need hell for this sort of problems; suppose God offers you to either cash in on your days in heaven (0 at the beginning) right now or wait a day after which he will add 1 day to your bank and offer you the same deal again. How long will you wait? What if God would halve the additional time for each deal so you couldn’t even spend 2 days in heaven, but could get arbitrarily close to it?