I want to explore the negative polarity.

[Black Dragon]

Well, obviously we should care, to some extent, "if they kill us". This 3d environment, the incarnation, and the "meat suit" required to operate in it are sacred parts of the creation as well. They are more than just expendable fodder. Just as the "higher" should not be subverted by the "lower", the "lower" should not be abused or used as mere fodder in pursuit of the "higher". Hierarchies are useful as a placeholder to make sense of things within the demiurgic octaval illusion we experience, but paradoxically, the "higher" law is that there is no lower or higher. So in my view, it is not useful to take the stance of a martyr or even a hardcore ascetic, to sacrifice or deny the body and incarnation. It's rather wasteful and biased, denying the wholeness of creation...however...

I understand and agree that suffering of any kind and physical death suck. They are unpleasant. They are inconvenient. They generate negative energies, thought forms, and reinforce negative energetic patterns keeping 3d Earth stuck in this rut/knot of fear. They should not be jumped headlong into or blindly accepted like a martyr. They should be acted contrary to and challenged from a blue-ray based co-creative standpoint, rather than blindly embraced... however, to some extent these things are inevitable, and though these things are "losses", they are, in my opinion, losses of a much lesser nature than letting one's principles/polarity choice be compromised or dictated by outside circumstances.

They make my life suck? They kill me? That's a loss and it blows. They manage to subvert me, and I've lost something so much greater. That's when you know they've really beaten you...not when they've made your life suck or killed you, but when you want to join them. When you decide to join them, that's when you really become a loser. Is that an objective universal truth? Not necessarily, but that's the way I see it.