Another group’s immortality beliefs threaten one’s own death-transcendence claims
Evidence
If those weird individuals with beards and funny hats are acceptable, then what about my claim to superiority?…Does he, that one, dare hope to live forever too—and perhaps crowd me out. I don’t like it. All I know is, if he’s right I’m wrong. So different and funny-looking. I think he’s trying to fool the gods with his sly ways. Let’s show him up. He’s not very strong. For a start, see what he’ll do if I poke him. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 485
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Appearances are immortal while meaning is mortal and dispensable — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 542