# If reincarnation were true, would you care ?

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**Created:** [March 24, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-reincarnation-were-true-would-you-care/490538 "2009-03-24T01:17:45Z")\
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Inspired by the [Theists, do you believe in reincarnation?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=511401) thread.

Assuming that there is such a thing a soul, and that yours had past lives, or will have future ones would you care ? How much, if you do ?

I wouldn’t. I certainly don’t recall any such lives, and my memories are the most important part of what makes me, me. If you could prove to me that I had a soul with past lives, it would be like proving to me that a particular iron atom in my blood once was part of Alexander the Great; mildly interesting, but that’s all. Reincarnation is functionally equivalent to having no soul at all, in my eyes.

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