tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post3503016824233488981..comments2024-03-28T13:23:50.623-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Life is shortAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-59109748231561956152009-07-02T18:25:02.667-05:002009-07-02T18:25:02.667-05:00I think length is a part of it, though. That'...I think length is a part of it, though. That's why people think that a life-long commitment is, typically, harder than a year-long commitment.<br /><br />It could also be that the timescales for commitments differ from timescales for life length. Thus, maybe, what counts as long for a commitment counts as short for a life. A life of three minutes is a very short life, but to hold one's breath for three minutes is exceedingly short.<br /><br />But my intuition is that commitments and living life are on roughly the same time-scale: what is short for the one isn't too long for the other. I have no clearly worked out argument here.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-32285972436804745592009-07-02T14:54:57.417-05:002009-07-02T14:54:57.417-05:00I don't think there need be a tension between ...I don't think there need be a tension between the two claims. What's hard about a life-long commitment might be that once you make it, you can't change your mind, even though there may be temptation to do so. To assume a tension appears to depend on taking what's hard about a life-long commitment to be that it lasts a long time,where this is in tension with realizing that life is short.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15048385218047191192noreply@blogger.com