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What's your primary purpose as a human?

• CamperBob2 14y ago
  The universe has so far remained silent on the question. It's vanishingly unlikely that I have any objective "purpose," but that's only my opinion.
  • dennisgorelik 14y ago
    If you don't think you have any objective purpose, then why did you bring it up? If your primary purpose as a human being is to reproduce
    • CamperBob2 14y ago
      As a subtle rhetorical way to suggest that OP should maybe get over himself. Our purposes aren't objective. They are ours to choose, as individuals. Other animals may live only to propagate their genome, but as humans, our societies appear to function best when we convince ourselves that we're here to accomplish things other than reproduction alone.
      • dennisgorelik 14y ago
        How about the purpose of teaching our children better? That's what PaulHoule is talking about in the original comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419805 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419805