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What is the meaning of life?
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Honestly the entire idea that the only purpose of humanity is to make the next generation or support that process in some way just feels gross in a very eugenics adjacent way. If you start with that premise, it's just too easy to conclude that anyone who isn't working towards that end is disposable.
I’m in the “there is no purpose,” camp. It seems like a bit of a mental disorder to me to (without any evidence) assume that oneself or one’s species isn’t just hanging around by random happenstance. Wouldn’t that simply be narcissism? People have long asked the question, “why are we here?” Yet there’s never been and never will be a definitive answer.
From a biological point of view everybody is disposable
Not just humanity. That is the purpose of all living things, insofar as we can be said to have a purpose at all.
No, it's not purpose. It's just a process that perpetuates itself.
It's how you make the next generation, but if that generation doesn't have a purpose, then neither does yours, nor the act of reproduction.
...well in the long view, that's how we got here and eventually that's all that matters: it's a bit nihilistic but that's the essence of nature in the cosmos...