- Short Answers
- Atheist/Nihilist answer - Be Happy
- General Religious answer - Make Others Happy
- Buddhist Answer - Reduce Suffering in self and others
- Scientific view - Do whatever you want, none of it matters anyway
- Long Answers
- Go through Maslow's hierarchy
- Survival (No Pain, hunger)
- Safety (No Danger)
- Love (Feel loved and accepted)
- Esteem (Respect of others)
- Self-Actualization (Be all the me i can be)
- Transcendence (Accepting you are only a small part of everything. Seeing the bigger picture from outside yourself.)
- Come full circle to realize nothing matters in the bigger picture and there is no purpose
- Accept Nihilism - Do whatever makes you happy
- Recognize there are consequences, making this a hollow statement
- Accept Strategic Nihilism - Attain the Freedom to do whatever makes you happy
- Freedom from responsibility
- Freedom from consequence
- This however is in direct conflict with Maslow's hierarchy, as it affects Survival and safety for others
- Immediately realize that religions are constructs to prevent people from coming to this same conclusion, which would result in mass chaos if everyone had no sense of responsibility or consequence
- Accept Strategic Responsible Nihilism - Attain the freedom to do the things that make you happy that do not have an adverse effect on any other non-hostile lifeform's hierarchy of needs. We should only be responsible for lifeforms that do not directly conflict with our own hierarchy of needs.
- What next?
- Clearly identify the things that make you happy
- Clearly identify hostile, and non-hostile lifeforms
- Clearly identify which things will not have negative impacts on non-hostile lifeforms
- For anything that will have negative impacts, Research, Discover, Invent, Build appropriate infrastructure to remove those negative impacts until none exist
- For everything else, do it as often as you wish
- My Answers
- Get a piece of land
- Build a communal farming and food space where we can all learn to be self sufficient
- All things can be categorized as Friend, Neutral or Foe, and should be treated accordingly
- Friend - Benefits outweigh costs. We like them, no reasons necessary.
- Neutral - Does not pose a threat. Benefits equal costs. No particular feelings.
- Foe - Poses a threat. Costs exceed Benefits. Do not like them, no reasons. necessary.
- Survival, Health and Safety of Friend is priority
- No Harm should be done to Neutral. Equivalent exchange rules should be followed.
- Foes should be avoided where possible, and eradicated otherwise
