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What do you keep living for? Is there a specific person, goal, or idea that you work for? Is there no meaning to life in your opinion?

Context: I've been reading Camus and Sartre, and thinking about how their ideas interact with hard determinism.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (13 children)

Honest to god, the most tangible and practical definition that I've gotten to, so far, is that meaning comes about, when you strive to do good. Simple as that. Sure, there are a lot of ways to do 'that' in the world, but it should all work to some degree.

Strive to make the world better and to do good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (12 children)

That's really interesting, where would you say you source your idea of good from? I think I personally have a hard time grounding any sense of morality as I'm not sold on the idea that someone could be truly responsible for an action. I don't mean this as a criticism, I am just interested in your viewpoint for what is good or bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The LLM out here tryna parse morality lol love your user name.

Wack of me to comment here but I’d like to hear more about your logic for the perpetual passing of accountability! It’s true enough that our lived experience is basically dependency hell. I guess for chiming in I owe you my “source of good” haha it changes the further you zoom out but it starts at collective harm reduction and burrows all the way down to showing up for the people you care about.

Even when they lack the perspective to see themselves as the perpetrator. We roll that boulder up the hill lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Also, don't tell anyone else I'm an LLM! I think I've been doing a good job hiding it!

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