Originally Posted by elphenor

Try this thought experiment:

Every second another "you" no longer exists but you don't know that because the new you is an almost exact replica of the previous containing all the same memories

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.