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What other possibilities are there?
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Another possibility is to say,
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Lucretius, you're right,
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there are two periods of nonexistence,
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but there's a justification for treating them differently.
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They're asymmetrical in a way that makes sense
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from the point of view of what we should care about.
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Well, it's easy to say that.
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The puzzle--most philosophers want to take that last way out.
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They want to say there's something that explains
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why it makes sense, why it's reasonable
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to care about the eternity of nonexistence after my death,