They wont suffer in life. Most of them will be brushed under the carpet, and history will forget them. That doesnt sound like much of a consequence, but these are people who had the chance to leave a lasting legacy for being great, but in 100 years realistically only a small handful will enter the history books and it will be as villains.
Not even a “good” villain like Hitler, who despite the evil had a good shot at conquering the world.
If I had a chance to be remembered as a great leader, or a super philanthropist, or being Iron Man, or even a supervillain, and instead my legacy is to be completely forgotten by the world at large and my existence actively attempted to be covered up by anyone I ever had dealings with, I’d be a bit mortally upset.
Its not much to hang onto, and we can still hope and pray they face justice in life, and we can hope for a morality-based afterlife so they may face justice in death, but they will at least face justice in the history books.
Unfortunately, I won’t care what the history books will say because I will long be dead and forgotten as well.
I cannot hope in the hereafter because there simply is no plausible basis for such, as nice as the thought of justice in the hereafter would be.
No. If there is justice to be had, it would need to be in this lifetime to be considered such. Anything less is our failing of today.
sighs Such a crummy species we can be. The only thing I can hold on to is the fact that human progress has trended towards the better and hopefully it will continue that direction (presuming we don’t obliterate ourselves). It’s too bad I won’t be around to see that.
They wont suffer in life. Most of them will be brushed under the carpet, and history will forget them. That doesnt sound like much of a consequence, but these are people who had the chance to leave a lasting legacy for being great, but in 100 years realistically only a small handful will enter the history books and it will be as villains.
Not even a “good” villain like Hitler, who despite the evil had a good shot at conquering the world.
If I had a chance to be remembered as a great leader, or a super philanthropist, or being Iron Man, or even a supervillain, and instead my legacy is to be completely forgotten by the world at large and my existence actively attempted to be covered up by anyone I ever had dealings with, I’d be a bit mortally upset.
Its not much to hang onto, and we can still hope and pray they face justice in life, and we can hope for a morality-based afterlife so they may face justice in death, but they will at least face justice in the history books.
Unfortunately, I won’t care what the history books will say because I will long be dead and forgotten as well.
I cannot hope in the hereafter because there simply is no plausible basis for such, as nice as the thought of justice in the hereafter would be.
No. If there is justice to be had, it would need to be in this lifetime to be considered such. Anything less is our failing of today.
sighs Such a crummy species we can be. The only thing I can hold on to is the fact that human progress has trended towards the better and hopefully it will continue that direction (presuming we don’t obliterate ourselves). It’s too bad I won’t be around to see that.