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2007-06-22 04:37:23 · 31 answers · asked by This_Is_Me 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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It's easy to imagine painful or horrific things that could happen, but I don't think it's the answer here. I mean, you could posit than watching your family being raped and killed before you're yourself tortured to death in some excruciating fashion (fingers torn off one by one, teeth ripped out with vice grips, eyes burned away to holes with a blowtorch, intestines cut out of your gut and force-fed to you so that you die choking on them, that sort of thing) is the worst, but there's no way of actually proving that proposition. It's always possible that some more creative torturer could come along and open up a whole new world of suffering. For example, it just occurred to me that the suffering is more intense if you bring it upon yourself somehow, perhaps through a tragic flaw. Maybe you accidentally kill your father and have sex with your mother, then find out about it and stab your eyes out with her brooch -- there's a good precedent for that one. At any rate, I think that if there is a "worst thing" at all, it probably doesn't have to do with pain as such -- it's more likely to be some sort of philosophical condition.

I also don't think that it's death. We all die, and "a fate worse than death" isn't just a figure of speech. It may have something to do with death, though -- I think a good "worst thing" case could be made for having the realization, as you stare into the void at the end of your days, that you have wasted your life, and there is no other.

2007-06-22 05:19:33 · answer #1 · answered by Drew 6 · 0 0

The worst that can happen is the slow aelination of people around us resulting in a total isolation . If we look at the life`s phases , from the childhood to old age, we see it clearly. There is adulation when we are kids. Then we are surrounded by friends , then colleagues , then the family members.

Then comes the time when these old people are left alone in old people`s home , only to recall from memory their great times.An occasional visit by the children and even that dries up soon. to await death , in the old age , alone all by themselves is the worst thing that can happen to anyone.

This is the greatest curse in the western society now.

2007-06-22 04:55:05 · answer #2 · answered by YD 5 · 1 0

My personal feeling on this subject is that the worst thing that can happen to an individual is the utter loss of faith and hope.
If a person loses those, s/he has truly lost everything.

We all have a need to believe in something, and a need almost as strong to believe that bad situations can improve and that good ones can get even better.

2007-06-22 04:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by Chrispy 7 · 1 0

Hello there
Nice question! First
question of the day! :-}

That's an unanswerable question,
because to give an accurate honest answer - you'd have to have experienced all the tragedies of life. There are millions, and you'd have to be a very very unlucky person for that to happen!
Also "the worst thing that could ever happen" doesn't just depend on "what happened" but "who it happened to", "where it happened", "how it happened" and "when it happened". They are the obvious factors to consider, but there are a lot more too.

Thank ~ You
Best ~ Of ~ Wishes

2007-06-22 05:07:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

Only once you have experienced all of the pains of life are you capable of answering such a question. To experience every kind of pain and tragedy is impossible! Equally, you cannot tell of the 'best thing' that could happen.

ThankYou!

2007-06-23 06:23:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Being stuck in an elevator for 10 hours listening to an endless loop of American Idol performances by Clay Aiken.

2007-06-22 04:46:45 · answer #6 · answered by clone1973 5 · 1 1

Believing you are the last person left alive on Earth but as you have become so desperate that you jump off a tall building, on your way down you hear a telephone ringing.

2007-06-22 04:53:19 · answer #7 · answered by Photographer James 1 · 1 0

I went on a date some years returned (approximately 2001/20002) with a woman I met at uni. We went to a spectacular eating place. She ordered lobster and poo (for herself I drank a unmarried glass of actual ale) and an high priced ice cream Sunday mutually as I enjoyed a small pasta dish and no barren region. entire bill £a hundred thirty five of which my meal and beverages got here to £15. because of the fact i develop into the guy she anticipated me to pay each and every thing. I did pay yet i develop into livid because of the fact she knew i develop right into a student and had valuable little money to spare. After that we went to a bar the place I (for sure) bought each and every of the beverages for something of the nighttime (I drank water to save money). i could no longer ask her to pay when you consider that's against my concepts. I have been given angrier and angrier because of the fact the nighttime went on because of the fact she insisted on having the main costly beverages obtainable. I spent over £30 interior the bar. that ought to have have been given me over a week's procuring at uni! on the tip of the nighttime she asked me returned to her place for "espresso" I spoke back something alongside the lines of "sorry my expensive yet I looks i basically won't be able to manage to pay for it" and walked off. She under no circumstances spoke to me returned. That develop into my worst date ever.

2016-10-18 08:59:36 · answer #8 · answered by duffina 4 · 0 0

To be connected to a machine for the rest of your life, that delivers strong, random shocks directly to your spinal chord while you are under oxygen and intravenous feeding. Incessant, indescribable pain and no escape but death, only, you're not allowed to die.

2007-06-22 04:58:10 · answer #9 · answered by Sophist 7 · 2 0

What has happened to me.
What has happpened to about a dozen people I met in the month of May.

Such thinkingg leaves one prone to fear and anxiety though. I would encourage you to think elsewhere.

2007-06-22 06:01:05 · answer #10 · answered by guru 7 · 1 0

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