We get pleasure from sating our hunger, quenching our thirst, getting warm when cold, getting cold when warm. Moreover, our brains just naturally produce pleasu

We get pleasure from sating our hunger, quenching our thirst, getting warm when cold, getting cold when warm. Moreover, our brains just naturally produce pleasure chemicals when we are not in a state of fear, pain, anxiety, or severe need. That is why each of us values his life---or should. Now if we value our lives, we have to find a way to get along and not kill one another---and perhaps we can even trade with one another to mutual benefit. Thus, governments are instituted among men, by men, to serve men. What was that you were saying about nothing having "meaning"? The pleasure we get from living is the root that makes all other values meaningful. What was that about everything being permissible? Feel free to shoot yourself in the foot---just don't shoot mine, or I will shoot back. Feel free not to take care of and preserve that value that is your own life (per my first paragraph), but I will take care of and cherish mine.