Absolutely Picking my Brain

[imported_luckyme]

Even though I don't believe it results in valid conclusions, I enjoy taking a dichotomous approach to a topic in order to tease apart some of it's factors and then take a broader and more relative view of it.

One dichotomy that I'd use to look at a difference people that are attracted to more fundamental relgions and others is their need for absolutes. Perhaps a better statement is 'their seeing the world in terms of absolutes'.

Death is one such issue. If aliens kidnap me and start removing my brain for study one cell at a time is there any specific moment that I can be said to have died?

My main contention is that 'alive' and 'dead' are states but the boundaries between them like almost all boundaries don't have an absolute demarcation. To some, when you say the boundary doesn't exist they incorrectly conclude that both states must therefore be the same. You'll hear versions of this claim in many time-wasted discussions. This seems different than the 'excluded middle fallacies' like "you're either for me or against me." although it may just be a variation of it.

There seems to be an attraction to creating an arbitrary demarcation and then treating it as an objective one.

luckyme, ..as different as day and night