Our Purpose In Life

[Welsh cake]

Our "main" purpose in life, is to reproduce and have our species go on.
Our purpose as humans, is to have offspring and raise them well enough to have offspring of their own.
After all, we are animals.

Except I don't ever intend to have children. There are too many genetic diseases I've inherited, I am concerned about them becoming dominant in any innocent children I drag into existence. Not to mention there are too many people being born as we speak and the public healthcare in this country is utterly abysmal, no one looks after you here. I'm still waiting for a stomach operation for crying out loud. The analogy that we *must* reproduce because we're animals has shortcomings. If you take it literally, then you're basically asserting my life by your standards is "meaningless", which is demonstrably false, I'm there for family and friends - I make my own purpose for myself. ^^

We are here because our parents had sex and created us and so on.

Correct, but the circumstances of one's life or how they were born or created is irrelevant. Its what you choose to do with the gift of life that truly determines who you are.

Should I feel ashamed that I just quoted that, no bastardised that quote, from a Pokemon movie? Ugh... >.>

People try to tell me that living life to the fullest, and being a nice person is our purpose in life. Those could be personal goals and all, but what will that accomplish 100 years from now, 200 years, 1000 years from now.

You would've improved, or at least contributed to, enhancing the quality of life for generations to come. We're a cooperative social species. That's how we've survived up until now. We don't last very long if we start behaving like dicks towards each other continually.

If your ancestors from 1000 years ago did not have any kids, you would not exist as we know it today.

Correct.

It's pretty fair to state that the purpose of a living creature is as a carrier for code.

See my response to Loading Please Wait. ^