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> There is still the real possibility that life is actually pointless. No there isn't, for a simple reason: I enjoy life, many others do, and those who don't g
by loup-vaillant 9y ago
> There is still the real possibility that life is actually pointless.
No there isn't, for a simple reason: I enjoy life, many others do, and those who don't generally want to enjoy it. The point is what we want. Not some external criterion we have yet to discover. (Some Christian fundamentalists make a similar mistake, believing there would be no morals without God —as if we haven't eaten the damn fruit already.)
Now there's this tiny little problem about resolving conflicts: we have yet to extrapolate a collective will from lots of individual wills in a way we'd all agree is "fair" —I believe we have demonstrated the absence of a general solution. The overlap however is quite comprehensive, so I have hope.
- okket 9y agoOf course, we individuals can find meaning and purpose in our life. Through family, creativity, social bonds, etc. But I am thinking about life as the whole humanity, the whole nature. I do not think individual purpose answers the questions why life or humans should exist.
- loup-vaillant 9y ago> I do not think individual purpose answers the questions why life or humans should exist. What we should do is defined by what we want. Most of us want life and humans to continue to exist. Therefore they should. It's that simple.
- yters 9y agoOnce you are dead you won't enjoy it and you won't care, so there is no reason to prefer life to death by that criterion.