Going off of what I wrote previously about freedom choice, there are a lot of ways to feel about that. If everyone individually decides the purpose of things, how can there be a society? How do we prevent people from just believing the point of existence is to eat ice cream until you die of diabetes?
One response to that is it doesn't matter how anyone feels about that freedom, it is inescapable that it exists. Gravity pulls things do the ground. Is that fair? Is that good? In the end, it doesn't matter, we just have to deal with it. So too do we have to deal with our freedom.
Another way to look at it is to say that if humanity has come this far with those ground rules, those ground rules can't be so terrible after all. When human beings first developed thought, there were no concepts of good or evil, of society, of great works. Those first humans could have just gone on eating their boogers and sleeping all day. But somehow, thousands of years later, we know that didn't happen. (At least not forever.)
And maybe you, my hypothetical straw man reader, think other people, if given the choice, would spend all day eating ice cream. And maybe some would. But you wouldn't. Maybe for a couple days that might be fun, but eventually you'd get bored of that and move on to something else. And, as human beings, we almost universally respect and aspire to be people who Do Things. We might say that we wish we could just spend our days partying or sleeping or eating, but I bet there are enough people out there willing to go out there and realize their own purpose. After all, if not, how did we even get to modern society in the first place?
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