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If you do nothing, you are nothing. If someone could pluck you from existence and nothing would change, you've failed.
At the end of a full, well-lived life, if you're moved by someone's death, it's not usually because you regret the absence of another person's physical presence. It's usually because you attach meaning to what that person did, and what they left behind. The strongest emotions aren't usually for the dead, but for those who live on. You don't mourn just the departed. You mourn the connection between the departed and those who remain.
The point of that post was that since the Great Intelligence isn't watching your every move and waiting for you to screw up so that it can mock you, you might as well stop asking for permission to do that thing you want to do. You might as well stop living in fear. You only get so long to live, and you are very small, so do it up. Live, already.
