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"I think the vast majority of people here wouldn't want any of that.  Going somewhere utterly unpredictable and unknowable when we die is unnerving, but there's all kinds of things I can see going wrong if you try to change any aspect of that.  Governments are awful enough as they stand.  If obeying the law made the difference between going to a good place and a bad place and people knew that for sure, governments could get away with so much more, because they wouldn't have to worry about giving people any reason at all to keep obeying the laws no matter how horrendous the laws got."

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"I think the vast majority of people here wouldn't want any of that.  Going somewhere utterly unpredictable and unknowable when we die is unnerving, but there's all kinds of things I can see going wrong if you try to change any aspect of that.  Governments are awful enough as they stand.  If obeying the law made the difference between going to a good place and a bad place and people knew that for sure, governments could get away with so much more, because they wouldn't have to worry about people still obeying the laws no matter how horrendous the laws got."

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"I think the vast majority of people here wouldn't want any of that.  Going somewhere utterly unpredictable and unknowable when we die is unnerving, but there's all kinds of things I can foresee going wrong if you try to change any part of it.  Governments are awful enough as they stand.  If obeying the law made the difference between going to a good place and a bad place and people knew that for sure, governments could get away with so much more, because they wouldn't have to worry about people still obeying the laws no matter how horrendous the laws got."