The older you get, the less of a deterrent a life sentence in prison becomes.

I'm always amazed by the confidence that people seem to have that reincarnation isn't a thing. All these decrepit oilmen act like they can just burn the world down and just retire to heaven like sliding into home base (as though that's even how heaven works). All so certain that they won't immediately funnel into a new baby and get yanked right back into the mess. And even the westerners that do accept reincarnation as a possibility appear to believe that it's somehow geo-locked and respective of social and financial hierarchy. Die an upper class white American and the universe will remember your preferences. It definitely won't toss you into a middle eastern war zone or some other place where the consequences of your privilege and the policies and wars that maintain it. It's all just seems so presumptuous to me. Especially about things to which we really have very, very little clarity. But I guess that's how religion works. Not directing all of this at you, by the way. Just something that I think about a lot.