RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
August 9, 2021 at 5:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2021 at 5:01 pm by R00tKiT.)
(August 9, 2021 at 4:47 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: You think the existence of pain and suffering is evidence for a god - because only a god can create a happy ending? Who says there has to be a happy ending? This isn't a Disney movie.
That's not what I said, captain. The existence of pain and suffering implies the impossibility of any intrinsic value to life absent a God, this doesn't mean that the existence of pain implies God exists.
And nobody is saying there is a happy ending, not even religions. An afterlife, as defined in religions, won't be a happy ending for everybody.
(August 9, 2021 at 4:47 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: We create our own meaning. The Earth doesn't care if we live or die. Where suffering exists, we should work to alleviate it. When we can't, we can be witnesses to it. Yes, witnessing tragedy is painful, but it reminds us of work that still needs to be done, and helps us value the time we have.
You're free of course to create your own subjective meaning. You're forced to admit, however, that under an atheistic worldview, there can't be any objective value to life.
