Question A

Self sacrifice can be very controversial. For those who place the value of their life and their accomplishments on others, it tends to be a steadfast commandment. Giving something of you in order for someone else to live is respected because they do not value themselves to some degree, or at least in compared to others. People who have a more introverted sense of value do not see it this way. To make themselves less in anyway is almost a sin in their eyes to some degree. In fact, the fact that they actually shed off something off themselves and then empowered someone else with it is a sign of weakness and unworthiness. I personally believe that both have a merit and should be practiced. A life with no one or a life without yourself would be a truly awful experience.

Giving up your consciousness automatically sets off an alarm in my mind. I understand that true belief in something to the point where it is fact to someone can make people do things that some would call silly. Those who call it silly tend to base their life around what they can visible perceive and identify as fact. It is difficult for these two groups to see eye to eye because they literally operate on a different set of facts, even a slightly different reality at least in their minds. But one thing is always overlooked by the belief group. Our free will if not a byproduct of nature, was then given to us to question the world and all it has to offer. Giving that up seems to me a rejection of the gifts that they, whoever they maybe, gave us.