A simulation argument against Suicide

This argument changes depending on the person, but the core is the same.

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Let's pretend for a moment that I am a computer simulation. Perhaps even, a projection of your mind, if we take the terminology of Inception.

In fact, as you have no proof otherwise, let's assume that we are all simulations. Everyone outside of yourself does not exist in the way you believe yourself to exist.


If this is the case, why should you care about us?
Why should you care what happens to us?
Why should you care what we think?
What we feel?

In your experience we (everyone other than you, the simulations) bleed when cut. We express pain. We cry. We laugh. We confide in you, and we confide in each other. We express sorrow at the loss of a loved one and joy at those moments of bliss.

We write, we sing, we embrace.

Even if we don't exist in the same way you do, to you, we might as well.

And thus a case against suicide,
Even if this world is not real, consider what the rest of us would feel.

We may not exist in the same way you do, but, if all you can trust is your experience, then from your experience, we do all feel.

Imagine the sorrow we'd all feel at your loss.
Imagine the pain you'd cause.