True@1stLight said:First, I'm not sure when spending time in a so called "nut house" was the indicator of ones sanity. Does it then follow that if you live mundanely in society you are not insane? Seems too much like a gross generalization.
~True
Someone previously asked someone else why they thought he was crazy. Spending time in an insane asylum receiving treatment for insanity seems a pretty good indication to me. The gross generalisation is to suggest that all who did not lived mundanely.
Bobby said what I quoted him as saying -- not your watered-down version.
I'm pretty sure you're right when you say that when we're dead we won't feel pain. Won't feel anything, in fact. I'm alive right now, and like to know it, and feel everything. Including pain. It exists to teach us what to avoid.
I won't comment on your "…objective enough to warrant judging the wholeness of a human life by its subjective measure." Haven't the foggiest notion what that means.