(August 19, 2013 at 2:49 pm)Esquilax Wrote: You know dude, if you want to be a nihilist that's fine, but some of us actually enjoy living life as though the events in it are significant, and that objectively known things exert some pressures upon reality.
So, yes, we're all going to die: this fate is shared, and that makes what we do in life objectively meaningful, not ultimately meaningless. Some things are objectively true: you eat poop, your chances of getting sick increases. The sicker you get, the shorter your life might potentially become. Therefore, eating poop is objectively risky.
And look, I didn't even have to be immortal to come up with a value judgment. Weird, huh?
But eating poop is risky to you because you happen to be concerned about your health.
Having anal sex with men is risky to me because I am concerned about my health.
But surely, you understand that many homosexuals consider the pros to outweigh the cons right?
My point is this...
Some people are of the opinion that maximizing their own temporary pleasure is of paramount importance and say to hell with how it affects my health and to hell with whether or not it affects anyone else.
Ultimately they, like you, are simply living in a way that is meaningful to them. They will not be judged after they die for the way they treated their bodies and others. They will not be punished for doing what they have done. There is no recompense for them or for you.
Death is the great equalizer and when one dies they die and turn to dust. You and the poop eater are ultimately both dust regardless of how you lived.
And saying that life is objectively meaningful is great. Thats your opinion. The nihilist would disagree.
Saying that your opinions somehow contain the status of being objective does not make them so.
