Because I have a continuity of consciousness with the person waking up tomorrow and because I have relationships with other people who I care about and who will be affected by my demise . If on the other hand , you told me that tomorrow , either I would cease to exist or would wake up with a completely different identity , I can ' t think of a reason to prefer either scenario . <| sep |> Gasp ! Asylum seekers return home when they feel it is safe again ? The audacity ! Are we outraged now that asylum seekers seem to return home instead of mooching of our social welfare ! ?!? The general illustration of migrants refusing to be settled in Portugal , Baltics , or leaving a highly developed country like Finland to return home isn ' t that they ' re sad to see them go , but to support the narrative that many refugees are economic migrants . In the case of Finland , I recall many of the returnees were Iraqis . Iraq , like Afghanistan , has numerous safe cities the whole country isn ' t Mosul . Many migrants came from the safe south part of the country . Not paradise , but not at war and no more dangerous than Chicago or most of South America . The security situation didn ' t change between their leaving and return it didn ' t become safe , prompting them to return home , but it was always safe , and they were sold the dream of a cushy , comfortable life in Europe and went for it . Upon finding out it wasn ' t the case , they decided life back home was better . We should be happy that those people returned home they ' ll be both happier and safe there . We also shouldn ' t use those stories as excuses to turn away legitimate refugees though again , if someone from Iraq shows up in Finland , did they cross Syria to get there ? Why not just go to southern Iraq ? If they ' re Sunni , why not just go to another Sunni country or Sunni part of Iraq ? . Not supporting his post , but just explaining that part of it .