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Why not? Cultures throughout history, part of becoming an adult was to start a family. Take that away, what does it mean to be an adult in the modern age?
by TbobbyZ 5y ago
Why not? Cultures throughout history, part of becoming an adult was to start a family. Take that away, what does it mean to be an adult in the modern age?
- keinkinder 5y agoThat's a circular argument: the meaning of life is to create more life.
- wskish 5y agoIsn’t that how feedback loops work?
- v-erne 5y agoYou are assuming that there cannot be a culture with value so different that being adult does not have any meaning for it. Of course it would be rather short lived one (without new children its hard for any culture to propagate). Ultimately it comes to simple systemic truth - the value of adulthood comes from its usefulness for culture survival - so in I believe it does not have any intrinsic value (its only valuable from the point of view of survival of culture).