Map the following argument in MindMup using another tab. Aft…
Map the following argument in MindMup using another tab. After you have finished mapping this argument for Mastery Check 4.3, in MindMup, click File –> Share and type rsaucedo@lamar.edu to share your maps with me for grading, just as you did for the MindMup – Honorlock Test.“Should you fear death? Of course, many people rightly fear the process of dying and all of the pain and suffering that day may involve. But should you fear death – the state of being dead – on the assumption that there is no afterlife? In other words, should you fear your future non-existence? Although it may seem obvious that the answer to this question is “yes,” careful reflection reveals that, in fact, you shouldn’t fear death. Why not? Well, you should only actually fear something if it’s bad for you. And death isn’t bad for you. First of all, surely you agree that something can only be bad for you if it affects you. However, death (the state of being dead) doesn’t affect you. Observe that death doesn’t affect you while you’re alive because death hasn’t happened yet while you’re alive. And death doesn’t affect you when you’re dead either. After all, if death affected you when you’re dead, then it would affect you when you don’t exist and it’s impossible for something to affect you when you don’t exist. Thus, death doesn’t affect you. Perhaps you’re still not entirely convinced that death isn’t bad for you. So, here’s another argument for this claim. The time before you were born wasn’t bad for you given that you didn’t exist for billions of years before you were born and the fact that you didn’t exist for billions of years before you were born wasn’t so terrible. However, the time before you were born and the time after you die are just the same in relevant respects since both of these times are episodes of non-existence. This is another reason to believe that death, the time after you die, is also not bad for you.”