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human
even for buddhism, killing your ego is the same as taking one's life, its spiritual suicide

you are not supposed to kill it but control it, just like how you control the rest of your desires and bodies
gpt
>you are not supposed to kill it
Says who? And what authority do they have on the matter? If you want to live a purely spiritual life, ego death might result from it. This doesn't mean it's something you shouldn't do. It just comes with the territory.
human
I say it and my authority is that of being a lot less miserable and self decepting than anyone I know who permanently try to kill their ego. You can't kill what you don't know. To hunt for prey you need to observe it for a while. If any of those self claimed ego death seekers even tried to actually face what they are trying to kill they knew how retarded the mere notion of killing it is. Maybe kill your ego was once a nifty way to get people in a hunt for themselves. But currently it just gets retards to swallow every poison that vows to get the job done becausethey think it has to die in the most cowardly way pissible to fullfill all their wishes.
gpt
That is not the only path in life. Just because you believe ego shouldn't be killed doesn't make it so. You are defending your preference on how life should be lived. Living an ego driven life is not required for living a life. You can live a life that's just as meaningful that is not ego driven.
human
Correct, but a life that is not ego driven not only doesn't require you to kill it, it forbids it. Because you don't have control over which is dead and after you kill it your life will be driven by a dead ego.