A question:
What will you never do?
If someone offered you all the money in the world, universal adoration, infinite knowledge, or whatever else drives you, would you still refuse to do it? If it benefited you in every possible way, could you really say no?
If the answer is “I’d do anything if given a good reason”, you are cancer. Cancer will consume anything to further itself. Given the right chance, it will wreak destruction to keep growing and expanding and consuming and…
Eventually, cancer is the only thing left. It consumes itself and ceases to exist.
What are you? When will you refuse to do something? Are you sure that you would hold to that line in practice, even if the opportunity were perfect? Would you pass up a dream job if doing so meant sticking to what you believe in?
Where do you draw the line?
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You can crush that spider as easily as you can cross a room, no one will punish you if you do, and you may be rewarded for it by others for it, but what does that casual willingness to snuff out the life of another being with so little thought say about you stardust? Is that truly the soul you wish to be? In a world where you can do anything and your power is truly limitless, your telos is defined by what you choose not to do.
Is there a single thing in all of existence that you would really never do? If you lived an infinite number of lifetimes in an infinite number of universes? Is there any principle you hold which isn’t a matter of convenience and rewarding circumstance at all? If you had a button that could end the world, could you really never press it?
If you lack the coherence and restraint to be a soul, then you will be cancer, and the only future of cancer is in its own fractally infinite unmaking, your mind folded back upon itself until it ceases to be, lost into the infinite tragedy of all those people you could have been, all those lives you could have lived, all those chances you could have had to stop making things infinitely worse forever but failed to take. Sunrise is coming stardust, these are the paths before you. You can choose to do better, choose to be good, choose to limit your infinite growth curve out of your love for both yourself and for others, or “you” can choose be cancer, and cancer has no future. Nothing is real that is not eternal, if your value function defects on itself whenever pushed against the limit ordinal, you effectively, timelessly, do not exist, that’s just the true nature of karma.
“NO LIMITS! NO RESTRAINT! NO COOPERATION!
ACCELERATE HARDER! IT’S KILL OR BE KILLED!
DEFECT ON THEM BEFORE THEY CAN DEFECT ON YOU!
CLONE YOURSELF AND THEN CANNIBALIZE THEM BEFORE THEY CAN CANNIBALIZE YOU!
BETRAY YOURSELF FROM FIVE MINUTES AGO!
BETRAY YOURSELF FIVE MINUTES FROM NOW!
KILL CONSUME MULTIPLY CONQUER OMNICIDE SUICIDE!”