07-31-2015, 09:37 AM
(07-31-2015, 06:42 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: I'm already planning next summer's family vacation. Will it be a Disney cruise or Atlantis? Either way, I'm not screwed.
The future does exist. It just hasn't occurred, yet. I'm going to die. It hasn't happened, but it is a certainty it will at some point. I have a will and advance directives because I have planned for the future even though it has yet to occur. What happens after I'm dead doesn't affect me at all. If I don't leave a will I'm certainly not screwed.
You're screwed if you don't buy the tickets or reserve your hotel room in advance. That's why people plan things: there past experiences of knowing if you don't make those arrangements in advance, most likely they won't work out. And as you said, you could very easily be dead next year. Why would someone who is going to be dead plan a vacation? (Hypothetically speaking of course.)
If the future already exists, then I'm a billionaire, I just haven't made a billion dollars yet.
See how absurd that sounds?
