I really hate this long winded list of questions when "why" is so loaded around our species self centered narcissism.
To answer the simple question "what does it all mean", Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5 "flurry of activity, full of sound and furry, signifying nothing".
In scientific reality there is no reason to all this, other than "all this" is merely like a weather pattern and seasons changing. But there is no magical altruistic divine handed down reason.
Nature simply does. And any answer we have found and any answer we might find is based in science. But the planet and the sun and the universe are not concerned with us nor are capable of being concerned.
However, all the other lists of things you mention in this list are a result of biological evolution. If we did not evolve with emotions like love, or fear of harm, we would not have evolved to seek cooperation, seek to find resources, seek safety in numbers, or seek to defeat anything that threatens our resources.
I hate your list(not you personally), but I hate this list because having to answer it in such non magical context which reality is causes some people to think that means we as atheists have to be void of emotions or are robots incapable of compassion.
The why is simple, nature.
To answer the simple question "what does it all mean", Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5 "flurry of activity, full of sound and furry, signifying nothing".
In scientific reality there is no reason to all this, other than "all this" is merely like a weather pattern and seasons changing. But there is no magical altruistic divine handed down reason.
Nature simply does. And any answer we have found and any answer we might find is based in science. But the planet and the sun and the universe are not concerned with us nor are capable of being concerned.
However, all the other lists of things you mention in this list are a result of biological evolution. If we did not evolve with emotions like love, or fear of harm, we would not have evolved to seek cooperation, seek to find resources, seek safety in numbers, or seek to defeat anything that threatens our resources.
I hate your list(not you personally), but I hate this list because having to answer it in such non magical context which reality is causes some people to think that means we as atheists have to be void of emotions or are robots incapable of compassion.
The why is simple, nature.
