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...Your point was basically saying that the only meaning for life was circular. My point was that there are non-circular reasons for all those things you're talking about. The [reason] makes it non-circular. It completely destroys your point.

I wasn't saying that the meaning for life was circular.

...Only if you try to force it to fit that view, and strip off all the other stuff that doesn't fit your point.

Like what? Adrenaline junkies like riding on roller coasters because they enjoy the adrenaline rush they get as a consequence of riding on roller coasters.

All of them. "Fighting for your life" means that you lose all of them if you don't.

So they fight for their lives because they don't want to die. They don't want to die because they enjoy living. Wasn't that my point?

Actually, I'm disagreeing with the idea that life is technically for its own proliferation. It is a mechanical tendency, not a purpose. I prefer not to assign a "purpose" as it implies that there was an intent in the creation of it.

The intent in the creation of life (for humans at least) is generally to have an orgasm, but that's not connected to the issue.

Quick, someone smoke 100,000,000,000,00 bluesmokes and find out.

Quote from: Xantalos on April 08, 2014, 06:54:38 am

Exactly. Why do people eat certain types of food according to their taste? Because they like the food. Why do people who enjoy rollercoasters wait in lin for hours to ride a rollercoaster? Because they enjoy riding on rollercoasters. Why do most people fight for their lives when in danger? Because they like living. That's pretty much it.

Assuming you ignore all the reasons people really have to do those things.
They like specific kinds of food for the taste, or because they're healthy, or because it makes them feel like they're supporting some cause or another.
People wait in line for rollercoasters because they're andrenaline junkies, stubborn, and/or stupid.
People fight for their lives when in danger...well, yes, because they like living, but there are reasons for that beyond the circular logic you're trying to imply is there.

They like specific kinds of food for the taste, or because they're healthy, or because it makes them feel like they're supporting some cause or another.

Yeah. Specifics still support my claim here. They eat the food because they like it because of [reason].

People wait in line for rollercoasters because they're andrenaline junkies, stubborn, and/or stupid.

Again, the specifics here boil down to 'because they enjoy the experience of riding on rollercoasters'.

People fight for their lives when in danger...well, yes, because they like living, but there are reasons for that beyond the circular logic you're trying to imply is there.

Which specific ones for this scenario?

What is the meaning of life?

To live. You guys still don't know that one?

Wait, aren't you the GM?

No one knows why L and D declared war? Didn't like MYRTLE's drapes? Couldn't stand that it was fucking up electromagnetism?

Wouldn't robots be cheaper?