Re: Does it make sense to work hard and study if you die in the end?
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We will die, but we'll have kids who live on, and they'll (hopefully) have kids and so on. Each generation is potentially an improvement over the last, so you can think of them as a newer and improved you. Only the you in its current form dies. The you in its new and improved form lives on, and the improvements may continue forever. That's a good reason to work hard IMO.
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What about people who never marry, or gay couples, or infertile married couples who can't have children? Should they just not bother? I find the idea that your children are a new and improved version of yourself to be strange. I don't think that's why people have children.
I don't know about working hard and studying specifically - but I think, since we only have this one life, we should try to maximize our happiness. If studying and working hard will help you do that, then that's what you should do.
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