Why Immortality Is Not So Bad Analysis

In “Why Immortality Is Not So Bad,” Fisher argues that immortality need not to be as bad as William says it would be and is inadequate. He argues that if an immortal life would be characterized by different experiences, there is no reason one to become bored with life. Although william argues that immortality would be as bad, he uses an example to prove it of a woman named EM who is immortal, for drinking a certain potion, and gets bored with life. In the end, she refuses to continue drinking it, because life has become a dull a state of boredom, indifference, and coldness. Williams claims that any kind of eternal life would end up being like this at the in the end,which is boring, meaningless, and undesirable. Williams’s case concludes that …show more content…
In order to be attractive to an individual the model must posit a future scenario in which they can recognize the self. The two type of conditions Wiliams presented is the “Identity condition” and the “Attractive conditions.” The “Identity condition” is that the future person must be identical to the individual. Williams claims that, if your character changes a lot over time, that it ceases to be you. But, Fischer claims that with the right amount of forgetfulness or change in your life, and in the appropriate way, personal identity would be kept as your own. The “Attractive condition” is that the life of the future person must be attractive, the kind of life that that a person lives must want to live like their goals and wishes they strive for. Focusing on the EM model, william supposes that it is primarily the second condition although he also considers pertinent to the first condition. With regards of second condition William constructs a problem where either EM character stays the same of they change. If they stay the same it will lead with boredom with their life but if changed, William is not clear whether the second condition is satisfied, either way immortality will be bad in her life. William has a few criticism in his argument, he concludes that for any sort of model that we try to conceive of, “the Attractiveness Condition,” is not …show more content…
The second pleasure is the repeatable pleasures, this is the kind of pleasures where, once you have experienced them once, you do form a desire to experience them again over and over again because it is pleasurable to you. Fisher argued that it is unfair to suppose that in order to be attractive it must consist of some activity at the expense of others. Fischer says, that Williams mistake is that he keeps speaking as if you are repeating one single activity forever in your life, which is not true because one can change their life up if they really wanted to. There are many activities in life and there is not just one single activity forever in your life to make you that bored. Self-exhausting pleasures would become tedious right away. Temkin, for example, is supportive over the idea that repeatable pleasures would become boring and dull if repeated often, we’ll get bored of everything after a long time. Temkin is already bored of classic rock music but has no interest in listening to any new music. He worries the same will happen eventually with everything else that he could be interested in and would not want to try anything new.On the other hand, Fisher says that biological desires like hunger and sex will never die out or stop giving pleasure which is compelling because one never gets bored of eating, and has the motive to continue eating when one experiences hunger and wants to try new foods.