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To: Colofornian

Not at all. I think it is sad to depend on others to give your life meaning. If you mean that my life can have no meaning or purpose unless I serve others then I not only consider that wrong but evil. If I do things for others it is because I have a selfish interest. I never do anything selflessly and despise a person who does. But I think you and I would have a very different definition of what is selfish and what is selfless. That is because we are coming from a completely different metaphysics and epistemology.


98 posted on 03/12/2013 6:48:13 PM PDT by albionin (Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture,an intransigent mind and)
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To: albionin
I think it is sad to depend on others to give your life meaning. If you mean that my life can have no meaning or purpose unless I serve others then I not only consider that wrong but evil

Let's go back to what you said earlier: "Life...needs NO external sanction or purpose."

Let me ask you point blank: Is there ANY social or ethical purpose in life? And, if so, how do you determine what that is?

102 posted on 03/12/2013 7:00:02 PM PDT by Colofornian
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