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Old 04-09-2008, 02:31 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by to_hobbes View Post
Well, a tree consumes resources in the soil and in the atmosphere, and competes with other trees for resources, and the humans species acts the same way. So humans just exist, like a tree -- how could one claim that our existence is either good or bad?
Existence is amoral, therefore to say it is good or bad is a subjective value given by humans. Therefore, just as religion is a way of thinking, is not believing that existence is good (whatever that means) just another way of thinking?
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