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Having the option of sex provides for opportunity and subsequently extends the options of the organism. You hear stories about people having sex with others but then they drop the relationship because it isn't within their interest to pursue anything further. It's true. You can't plan out relationships, they're a step by step process.
Sex is fun. I like to do things that I find fun. I don't think this is pointless.
Well that could be a part of it, but what I meant by that was biologically growing up and then dying. Basically, you're organism function is exactly what your organism functions are, no more or less. On the biological level, the "will to live" shall we say, is basically the blind force that runs everything, and we're just that on a larger scale. In other words, progressing, we're doing it right now. We're all doing what we are "meant" to be doing, in a sense. I don't mean progression towards happiness or any goals.
I still support that biologically and emotionally that there is more to us then doing everything for getting the most/best mates we can. Part of that progression may indeed be in having children, thus implying a "mate", but that doesn't change the fact that there interactions and friendships can still be platonic because there are more factors that come into play. Logically this seems true like I've said before, and through experience this seems intuitive. The only thing that I have granted and can grant is that an attractive female has more "potential" value than one we have no attraction to. This does indeed mean that relationships that are purely platonic are most definitely tentative, or have the potential to change and focus on the physical attraction part, apply emotions and desires with it, but these are not necessarily in place because it depends on the context of the situation between you and her, and you with everyone else.
Yes but it is understood what it is, a rush of dopamine to the reward centre of your brain giving you a massively addictive motivational drive to claim a person and keep them for yourself.
Propagating the species prolongs the life of the species. It is more accurate to compare it with eating and drinking.
Propagating isn't pointless as it ensures the species will go on. Unless you're speaking with the idea that existence will cease in the end, which I can see the point, but that won't come for another several billion years... unless I'm missing a point entirely.
Yeah I know that propagating the species prolongs the life of the species, that is what the world propagating means. What I said was propagating the species is as pointless as having sex for pleasure. So a child is born and has sex and brings more children into the world. And? I'm only making this point from a non spiritual/religious view since if you hold those then it's an entirely different ballgame.
Good Work, Jump Man.
Screw that – humans will live forever!! We'll inhabit other planets if we need to!
I don't know if this qualifies as a greater purpose. but many people believe that it will eventually be possible to achieve a life span as long as existence itself through technology.
Doesn't mean much for the people that won't be able to live long enough to experience such a breakthrough in technology.
Perhaps, but considering that using DNA for data storage is already in testing, many of the users on this site have a reasonable expectation for such a thing to be possible in their lifetime. Whether it can or will happen is not relevant, provided that it gives them an illusion of hope.
Yeah I don't see how perpetuating a pointless existence makes it any less pointless. If the universe ends, which if it doesn't at least the death of the sun is a certainty for definite, there will be an end to human existence.
This takes for granted that objective taste matters more than subjective taste.
No, you can't objectively rank things above each other if their ultimate worth is equal, that worth being nothing.
In this context, I meant "objective taste" as the ability to measure "objective worth." Given that such a sense is based in subjectivity without a third-party (e.g. God) to inform to the contrary, it does not exist. From my understanding of this, the argument changes to something else.
Unless it is given otherwise, you cannot determine objective value, making this argument moot.
Suicide is also up in Japan, which can have a negative impact on births. Correlation is not causation.
Sorry I don't quite grasp this, could you paraphrase it?
I addressed it differently in an earlier section of the post, if that helps.
sorry if this has already been addressed somewhere in the thread, but this can just as easily be applied in the negative
If a discussion goes on long enough, regardless of the topic, it will eventually come to, "What is the meaning of life?"
