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I'm not sure why parent involves abiogenesis, but as they go on to say, surviving and reproducing aren't really purposes (as in motivation) but self-evident tru

I'm not sure why parent involves abiogenesis, but as they go on to say, surviving and reproducing aren't really purposes (as in motivation) but self-evident truths. Something made to replicate itself into more things that self-replicate and so on.

Drakim 3y ago
Self-evident truths of what exactly? Surviving and reproducing are facts of live, they are descriptive facts. What you ought to do with your life is not descriptive, but prescriptive. You cannot derive prescriptive statements from descriptive facts.
- vacuity 3y ago
  I didn't say you could. GP didn't seem to either.
  - Drakim 3y ago
    Fair enough, but I felt you implied it by calling them self-evident. That's the sorta phrasing usually used when people try to wrangle meaning out of facts.
    - vacuity 3y ago
      I guess I have to join advertising or PR now. sobs quietly in corner