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And if i decide it's about punching people in the face, in the end it has as much value as your decision for a grand humanitarian crusade, because it's just as
by Noos 7y ago
And if i decide it's about punching people in the face, in the end it has as much value as your decision for a grand humanitarian crusade, because it's just as much a choice as the other.
So we're back to needing a point to judge decisions by. The choice isn't enough, or the fact of choosing isn't enough. This is what creates the "whole life is pointless" reaction in the first place, because "you decide" can mean anything, and there has to be something that isn't solely "you decide" to give particular meaning to one choice over the other.
- greggman2 7y agoIf you decide it's about punching peole in the face either you'll wildly succeed or more likely you'll get punched back and eventually locked up by the community at large who are all pursuing their own meanings and have collectively agreed to stop people punch other people in the face. I mean you could choose that the meaning of life is to punch people in the face but you'll have to live with the reprocussions of that choice. That feels like you'll quickly come to the rational decision that it was/is a bad choice.
- sireat 7y agoThe problem is that pure rationality leads into abyss. There might be a rational decision not to punch people directly into face but a purely rational psychopath can choose many other profitable avenues that are disastrous to society at large "in the long run" (fentanyl, global warming, etc etc). And we know what happens in the long run. It all goes back to Ecclesiastes(and Job), you can be an "evil" person and prosper in this world. If this tiny lifespan is all there is, this is quite distressing. And physically there is nothing else. Apparently the best solution is to realize there are no rules but live as if they do per Voltaire(not necessarily Pascal).