I think you're correct, but I think the only reason people like Frick are talking about non-existence is because, at our current ability to resurrect the dead (i.e., no such ability whatsoever), we aren't forced to confront the difference between non-existence and never-having-existed.
I am pretty confident that most people attracted to F…
I think you're correct, but I think the only reason people like Frick are talking about non-existence is because, at our current ability to resurrect the dead (i.e., no such ability whatsoever), we aren't forced to confront the difference between non-existence and never-having-existed.
I am pretty confident that most people attracted to Frick-type positions would happily modify their views to account for this, for basically the reason Richard points out below. In a sense, I think if resurrecting the dead were a real possibility, people would be more likely to regard death as like an extended coma or something like that.
I think you're correct, but I think the only reason people like Frick are talking about non-existence is because, at our current ability to resurrect the dead (i.e., no such ability whatsoever), we aren't forced to confront the difference between non-existence and never-having-existed.
I am pretty confident that most people attracted to Frick-type positions would happily modify their views to account for this, for basically the reason Richard points out below. In a sense, I think if resurrecting the dead were a real possibility, people would be more likely to regard death as like an extended coma or something like that.
Then that's a cost for the view if it requires having a weird metaphysics to accommodate the data that one should bring one back from the dead.