Eternal Life (thanks, but no thanks)

Nah, I don't like this. You're still you. You can't be anything else but you, yourself. You change, changing doesn't make you not-you.You can't say that you didn't do something because it was you when you were 18 that did it, no... you still did that. You'll still be you so it'll still make a difference to you, just not the person you once was. You will be different but you'll still be you. You can't say that you will no longer exist.

Those being tautologies means that your position is a contradiction I suppose I'm falling in line with this:

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So you're saying, "but my self has this same kind continuance of 'perspective', so its the same thing just a different part (like the train) or occupies a different time (like the car) of the same thing. It is this thing that I am interested in achieving personality".

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It is a strong argument, and of course, this is a matter of personal preferences.

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Of course you're always going to be you. Its wrong that because you were so much different when you were younger that it wasn't you who, say, stole that candy from the store. No, it was you who did it even if you've changed since then.How far back do you have to go? "I've changed so much since I killed my wife last week, that it wasn't me who did it so I shouldn't be charged with anything..." No, that doesn't fly.

Well there's this:

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If I do grow, then I change. This is good. I like changing - I am a different person now, then when I was six years old and I am different from when I was eighteen. The me aged eighteen can be said to be 'dead' since it doesn't really exist any more. It has been replaced with me aged twenty eight.

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And now this: Which is assuming that you're going to change so much that you're not going to be you anymore.You're still gonna be you, so I don't see the problem.You should care the same way you care about whether or not you'll see tomorrow. It doesn't matter if you push it out 10,000 years, you're still gonna be there the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, all the way back to tomorrow and today.

But still 'you' nonetheless. Irrelevant. "You" were never a caveman, or a single celled organism. Why?You can just point me to a post if you've already explained it. Pardon me for not reading through the whole thread.Presuambly, its because of all the change you expect to go through, so as you say: So too, will you largely be the same the day before 10000 years from now as the day of. And the day before that, and the day before that, all the way back to tomorrow. But you do care about the guy you'll be tomorrow with your ever-so-slight difference. When tomorrow is the 10000th-year day, you're still going to care about the you of tomorrow. I don't see where this chain breaks so as to make you stop caring about yourself and if it does, then you might as well not care about tomorrow either. This isn't about me, its about you!