Comment by spaceprison

If I say “flourishing is more important than life,” I am not denying the necessity of being alive. I am saying bare survival is insufficient.

Imagine a being kept alive forever in agony, if life alone is the irreducible axiom, then preserving that agony-life satisfies the principle.

So I would say that Flourishing life is the most important truth, because unlike non-death the denial of flourishing does not collapse into absurdity.