When normies say life has any purpose you give it…

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[–]neomarxist_bullshit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

normies say life has any purpose you give it…

If a statement and it’s contrary are equally true then truth itself doesn’t exist.

In this sense what people are saying is that they give themselves a subjective purpose, not an objective purpose like some externally imposed one (by God etc). So your conclusion "truth doesn't exist" can't follow from that.

And if it doesn’t, morality is just a game that everyone pretends has rules.

Morality is something that's ingrained in you by your biology and culture. Different people have a different sense of morality. Psychopaths allegedly have different something different in their brain for example. https://www.med.wisc.edu/news-and-events/2011/november/psychopaths-brains-differences-structure-function/

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If a truth and it’s contrary is capable at the same time, we can possibly infer that although truth is subjective it is objective. Since truth cannot contradict itself, there must be no truth. And if truth doesn’t exist, it follows that moral truth doesn’t ether.

If someone says the purpose of life is A and another says B, and they are contrary they cannot both be true. Saying it’s all subjective just means that there is no actual meaning but you just make one up.

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Saying it’s all subjective just means that there is no actual meaning but you just make one up.

Yeah, but that's the world I'd say we live in. Still doesn't make me wanna go on a gun rampage in a mall.