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I think he meant the purpose of humans, not the purpose of each individual human. Why would each human have a different purpose?
by bloodofheroes 13y ago
I think he meant the purpose of humans, not the purpose of each individual human. Why would each human have a different purpose?
- lutusp 13y ago> I think he meant the purpose of humans, not the purpose of each individual human. Why would each human have a different purpose? Because of evolution and natural selection. Natural selection works because of diversity, not uniformity. The more diversity, the more quickly a species evolves to meet the environment's changing demands. So, to answer your question in the most formal and scientific way, if people weren't different from each other, evolution wouldn't work.
- hsitz 13y agoWhy would you think everyone must have the same purpose? Even among the people who think every person's purpose is to serve God, every person has a different way of doing that. This specific way of serving God is their "purpose". Strikes me as slightly analogous to Aristotle's claim that every person has happiness as a goal. That tells you relatively little about what each person might actually do, since what makes people happy (i.e., mostly realizing their unique individual potential, for Aristotle, "become who you are") differs from person to person.
- gnaritas 13y agoBecause there is no purpose of humans; each individual must decide for himself what he wants his purpose to be.