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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Is the instinctive will to live a reason to live? Is it a reason that will sustain the human race in perpetuity? If not then we need something else because eventually humans will probably instinctually argue themselves out of that instinct. Which is why I think people are shooting up schools. The mass shooters are like canaries in a coal mine realizing that life is meaningless and pointless and simply the first people most likely to opt out of that, but I don't think they'll be the last once human society culturally advances down that same route.
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Everyone has their own reason to live, for instance love, but getting enough happiness out of love to make living worthwile might be a matter of survival instinct. At least that's what I meant. And again: the fact that those mass shooters don't simply kill themselves but choose to make it a massacre shows they are misguidedly trying to give meaning to their lives