We each individually have our own reasons for existence, all selfish, but the question asks "Do humans have a reason to live? We as a species, exist only to reproduce. making our reason to live, is to live, and there is no reason in that at all. Should every human die tomorrow what would happen? Nothing, the world would keep on spinning and every other creature here would probably be better off. Should the earth cease to exist would anything be different? in the big scheme of things? i doubt it At one time we considered our planet the center of the universe, but its all in our minds. Just like our reason to live. We feel the need to justify existence when at the end of the day we are lucky to exist, we don't need reason. Viruses follow this same logic, and have just as much reason.
This question implies whether or not the collective human race has a reason to live. I agree with Litchfield's argument that if we were to disappear, nothing would really change, other than Earth being better off. On an individual level however, human beings have to decide their own reason to live. Other than perpetuating the species, which could be construed as a reason, humans are free to decide their reason for living. But this is outside the scope of this debate.
Humans don't need a reason to live... just a reason to die. That's why many who feel empty inside still live. Many who want to die can't seem to kill themselves. People just live and they try to find a reason as to why they're living, but they don't need to... if u wana die, have a reason to die. A reason like, nobody loves me or I'm worthless, is usually not good enough. You need a reason like, if I die, it'll be a better world, or something like that. People try to make reasons to kill themselves sometimes but never seem to be able to and it's because the reasoning is not sufficient enough; so even if they're miserable, they still go on living.
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Humans have no reason to live at all. They live because they are impulsed to. Have you ever seen someone die from holding their breath? They can't, because once they get knocked out, they return right to breathing. The fact is, living is so very deeply engrained in our subconscious precisely because its a phenomenally selfish act. Take, for instance, suicide. People who commit suicide are inherently selfless people. They have so destroyed their own self that the act of killing themselves is easy: there is simply no self left to remove. The very act of living is a defining of self, a recognition of the fact that one is important enough to continue consuming. Thus, saying that there is a reason to live is ludicrous- it somehow justifies and makes selfless an act that is based on a recognition of self.
A reason means one reason, but there could be any number of reasons including zero. Since meaning is personal the possible reasonS to live vary from person to person. Maybe you feel you have no reason to live. If so life still goes on, no less a tale told by an idiot. I have 4.235 reasons to live.
Yes- If we didn't than we would not be here.
No. There's no reason for anything. Just because we're alive, that's not an indication that we should be.
As far as any"thing" being able to answer this question than that which is the subject of the question is absurd.
there is a reason for everything.
reason: cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event. Humans don't have a real cause. We definitely don't have an explanation, and we have no justification in living. The body compels us to fight for life though, or by other means, preserve ourselves. So, the body does cause us to feel justified, for instance, if we are confronted with a life threatening situation, we have the feeling that we should run from the problem, or escape the danger... we don't think first "I have no reason to run because I have no reason to live". It is more likely though that this is a skewed perception. I'm guessing though that one could argue that the will to survive is justification enough, but in all actuality... I don't think we can rightly feel justified.
You state that "Humans don't have a real cause." Full stop. Look up "cause" in a dictionary or other reference book. Every thing has a cause.
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Of course. Normally when someone is asking "what is the reason to live" they are asking for an objective purpose. Ie. a purpose that exists independent of their mind. That I don't think exists. I don't think the universe has any "reason" besides physics. I do, though, believe one can create subjective reasons for themselves ie. a reason you create. I want to live, for instance, because I enjoy life, and my purpose, I have decided, is the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment, as well as to contribute to the world in a positive way.
You tell em ham, u da man, even tho youre not all grown up yet
If we didn't have some reason to live then we wouldn't be alive, now would we ? everything happens for a reason, and therefore we all live for a reason. while we may not know until we are adults, we all have a reason whether or not we realize it. I personally, think my reason to live is to help others. I can't go a day with out thinking about wanting to help people or raise money for different organizations. But that's just me; others might have their own reasons.
This is a rather ambiguous question, in that the term "reason" could mean either a predetermined reason (which I would have to say no to) or simply a reason to live based purely on the fact that we are here. Personally, I see that there is a reason to live. As humans we have a fantastic capacity to be capable of building reasons to live: friends, family, the things we enjoy in our lives. All of these things are reasons to live.
Yes, but we need to give ourselves the purpose for our existence.
Yes; Simply put; we're here; that's our reason to live. All creatures when left to instinct will try to survive and live. You are here because many people lived and tried to survive before you. Survival is an inherent goal of all life. We are connected and dependent on our whole world and all existence to even be alive. Therefore inversely the world and existence as we know it is dependent on human life. Humans could decide not to live. But another species would eventually dominate the planet, so why not be that dominant species?
Just because we have an instinct towards living does not give life a reason. You present it as an objective reason to, especially when you say "we're", "our" and other things like that. This is negated by the existence of martyrs. Another flaw with the "instinct" argument is that it would also mean people's reason to live is to lie and cheat, eat food, masturbate, be afraid of creepy crawlers, and so on. Nothing other than fallacy puts "the instinct to live" above those, for "humans live to live" is circular logic at its finest.
I don't see how the fact that people's motivations are to lie, cheat, eat food, masturbate etc. is a fallacy to my argument, do you ever talk to people? Underneath it all these motivations still exist today. The reason we humans don't chose to die is because we are programed to try and live. More intelligent humans/creatures tend to develop more intricate reasons as to why they live, but when it comes down to it all if it weren't for our instinctual drive to live we would have died off already. And Martyrs are explained by the fact that we become more advanced over time and develop human creations such as beliefs and ideas. When humans take on these beliefs or ideas as an identity than survival of that identity becomes more important than self-survival.
You fail to understand the concept of objective v.s. subject purpose, and ignore most of my reply. Also, your argument from instinct follows that the "purpose of life" is to, among other things, be afraid of rattle snakes. Absurd.
Humans don't want to die; that is their reason for living. Do you want me to come up with some complex human creation to explain that? You might come up with ideas and beliefs that distract you and give you a sense of purpose however I don't believe a purpose is provable with given Human knowledge. However there is the fact that given the choice between Life and Death most creatures unless sick (Mentally Ill, Severely Injured etc.) will choose life. And the reason Humans tend to be scared of Death is because it is unknown. Therefore the reason Humans live is because Humans do not want to be dead. (Basic Instincts) Thats not to say that humans can't develop some more reasons to live beyond that, but those are all extensions of the fact that humans want to live and not be dead.
Please don't put words into the mouths of all of humanity. As I've already demonstrated, purpose and reason is subjective.
Being here, does not supply the reason, on the effect.
If this just means simply a reason, then it depends on the situation. For instance, someone who hated their life could just have reasons not to die or a lack of resources or will to kill themselves. For the sake of the question though, I'll consider those reasons and say that if someone is alive for some reason they aren't dead....so yes. Just to clarify, a 'reason' is NOT the same thing as a 'purpose'. Purpose implies predetermined..for instance, a soldier has a predetermined purpose as implied by it's name. Human, implies no purpose.
I don't believe there is any objective reason given to us to live; we are the conscious beings that devise the concept of purpose and reason in the first place; there is no other entity to just dump the answers in our lap (and if there is, then obviously the bastard isn't very communicative, huh?). So we essentially must decide for ourselves what our reason is. It's a subjective reason, but it's the only reason possible, given present circumstances.
humans have a great way of thinking of causes and effects. something must have caused us to be here. but i don't think that the question is asking what causes us to live. it's more about our purpose and justification. if the question is about serving some greater purpose.. who knows? we certainly serve purposes for each other all the time. a farmer may serve the purpose of harvesting food. a mother may serve a purpose of feeding a child. a teacher may serve a purpose of helping to raise a child, etc, etc, etc. i suppose we even serve purposes for plants and animals, including the microorganisms that live in our bodies.. viruses, etc. in fact, we serve the purpose of continuing certain species. i wonder if the corn and grass and flowers etc. are thankful that we have a hand in continuing their legacies. if you're looking for some objective justification, something outside of humans, then the question is flawed and unfair. we can't really decide as if we are not humans. we can't escape that. we have to answer the question as humans. who else do we have to justify it to? aliens? the fact is, we decide the reason. it's a totally subjective question. it's up to you to decide for yourself! who's to say that you, personally, have no reason to live? i wouldn't listen to that person if i were you.
Premise subjective. The individual have emotions and those emotions obviously is enough to exist. Therefore we have "reasons" in a subjective sense. It is not really a debate, humans have a reason to exist or humans would all die out in evolution. DEFINE REASON!
It's not 'What we live for', but 'Who we live for.'
Semantics aside, the reason for humans to live is to have children in order to perpetuate genetic information.
Just like any other organism, out reason to live is to procreate. That's it.
Yes, of course. We are here to pollute the Earth, believe that we dominate every other being than ourselves, and to destroy each other.
Some humans do. Others..... I'm not so sure.
Even if our life is meaningless; we still feel pleasure and pain. Pain = bad, pleasure = good; so lets try to derive as much pleasure as we can from our short existence here on earth.
Life is a gift, with a purpose.
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