| > you first have to create the understanding that we are not special and have no purpose. What purpose do we have? What higher being put us on this planet, deciding that we are special in this universe? Who designed the world such that we are at the center? There is simply no evidence that we have purpose. That someone made us for something special. Or that we are the center of anything. Compared to the vastness of the universe, we are utterly insignificant. The tiniest of slivers of earth is hospitable to us, go up or down by more than a few kilometers and you need machines to survive. Even Earth itself, the rock we stand on, is not hospitable to life in majority. That is not a grand conspiracy from the powers above, they are bound to the same insignificance. However bad a politician may be, how much evil they commit, does not objectively matter. The universe at large does not care. However, as Nietzsche does lay out, this does not mean there is no meaning to life or joy. Rather, the universe will not provide you with a meaning to life. Or purpose. You have to create purpose and meaning yourself. Recognize that every human on this planet must create meaning, purpose, morals, ethics and so many other things for themselves and themselves only. There is no grand truth that murder is evil, we decided murder is evil. Same for any other crime or injustice. Or immoral actions. We must decide these things are evil, in our intuitive understanding of evil. As the character Death puts it in the Discworld novels; "[...] TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED." |