gad-fly wrote: ↑March 21st, 2021, 11:48 am
The topic "Is life worth living?" is asking your opinion, like "Is it worth casting your vote?"
That was my impression. But, in fact, my opinion was unwelcome? Then why ask for it?
To make it simple, live or vote happily if your opinion is Yes; die or stay home if No.
Neither of those positions represents my opinion.
Then again, maybe the sentences were too compact.
Life as a phenomenon is without worth, as there is nothing to which it could be compared for a relative valuation. It just sprang forth from a purposeless chemical process and continued to manifest in ever greater profusion.
Externally, any particular individual life might be weighed against any other particular individual life - but that judgment would have to be made by a third life-form - according to its own criteria, so what would then be evaluated is neither of those lives, but only their correlation to the judge's requirements.
Internally, each life is evaluated differently at each moment of its duration by the individual living it; at one moment, it may be priceless; at another, worthless and for much of the time, unregarded.
And so, whether a particular life is worth continuing from this moment onward will have to be decided by the individual living it on the basis if its own experience and expectation.
It should not be judged worthy or unworthy by anyone else.
It would be idiotic to just live or kill yourself without thinking.
It would also be impossible for many individuals at many points in their lives to kill themselves at all. But they can always be killed by others, with or without thinking.
"Sorry, don't blame me. It just happens."
I wasn't blaming anyone. Mitosis and mieosis take place in cells too idiotic to prevent it. Once the new bacterium of elephant or date palm is conceived, as long as the environment is nurturing, life continues with no moral, sentimental or economic properties to give it any kind of value.
It is worth giving an opinion?
I very much doubt it, in the current venue -
That is for you to decide. Hang yourself on the balance if you like, or glue your hand onto the door knob. Your silence would be duly respected, at least by me. I know how painful it must be for you.
I'm happy to have been able to spare you that pain.