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Dude
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 Posted - 06/03/2004 : 13:32:28 [Permalink]
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You're right. Technically you can give your own life meaning if you want. But is there 'objective' meaning to life? Can there be objective meaning to life???
I don't believe there is, nor does such a thing appear to be necessary to life.
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coberst wrote:
Meaning can be imagined and like the hypothesis tested against empirical evidence. The rational person can accept this meaning when so varified. The meaning discovered is subjective but very capable of being something for which that person would be willing to die.
No rational person would agree with that statement. How do you test something that you agree is purely subjective against empirical evidence? If you can find 100,000 people who say that they are willing to die for their country because it is what gives their life meaning.... and you find just ONE who disagrees.... then the ONLY thing you can conclude is that SOME people find meaning in life by service to country. That one disenting person makes any universal statement about service to country granting meaning to life invalid. |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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