See also: Pascal's Wager[1]
The leaks about mass-surveillance don't fit the criteria, as best I can tell. It's in their best interests not to, as you state.
The leaks about mass-surveillance don't fit the criteria, as best I can tell. It's in their best interests not to, as you state.
You can very well waste all your life in pointless prayer, like the monk who basically imprinted his feet on the wooden floor by praying several hours a day for decades.
Even getting out of that room to help someone in a trivial task would have been much more useful than the praying.
Not to mention the huge amount of censorship over your own thoughts that some religions impose on your life.
So, IMO, if you get the wrong end of Pascal's wager, you can waste your only life, every infinitely valuable second of it (because there's no afterlife), over a non-existent afterlife.
That's a hell of a wager to lose.