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It may be hard to accept that the universe exists for no reason at all. You can fall in to a nihilistic trap where nothing matters. Or you can fall into a fantasy trap and say it matters for reasons that are not true.

I would rather follow a more humanistic path, that we define our own existence, and that we should attempt to minimize our own suffering.



The problem is if enough people go full-nihilist, society crumbles.

Same for minimising one's suffering. A healthy society requires a lot of sacrifice from individuals, even with today's technology.


Where's the evidence that lies are better to prevent this nihilistic crumbling of society?


If people would believe religion stuff, it’s be pretty easy to motivate them to clean up the damn planet. Of course, given that the leaders would sign off on that.




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