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Originally Posted by judge45  To think there is no control by you oin any level makes the whole thing useless, why bother? |
hehe... I'd say because we're programmed to bother by evolution/physics and that we've got no choice but to bother (at least on some level), just like a rock has no choice but to fall down because of gravity.
You might say that you just don't care about life anymore and have a smug attitude, but then deep down inside you can't help but wish things were better.
I guess you can commit suicide, because you have free will to, and that you can consciously override the built in feeling, but usually that happens because you cannot see any possible way to make your life better, you want to make it better but you think you can't. And that it would somehow benefit something at some higher level because you are teaching people a point no to do bad things to people like they have done you..., "that'll show em". So you tried to bother, by not bothering and going for the better goal of teaching people a lesson, or maybe it was to end the pain, but to end the pain means higher pleasure, but of course you are not around to enjoy the pleasure. But at least you default gut feeling is to want to bother.
And yes we had the choice to choose if we wanted to respond to this post, but the basis for that decision was made from either habit/subconscious, or if we "consciously" chose, then we had no choice but to choose the choice that would give us the most benefit. Or you could have consciously chosen the choice that would not have benefited you the most, but you would have had to pile on another layer of consciousness, and would have done so to make yourself feel better and to prove to yourself the better point that yes I do have free will not to respond.
And for evil people, they are just bothering with life to gain power and are too selfish.
And the criminal that claimed he had no choice, he was just unlucky that he had the circumstances that made it seem like whatever action he chose was the best action that made it seem the best way to optimize towards goodness. But then the people who are his peers are forced to decide that his
argument is a bunch of B.S. and that it would help society the best to have him locked away.
So I basically I see it that nature has forced us to optimize the good in our decisions, and what is defined as good depends on a balance of helping yourself or helping community (light/dark worker maybe)
And also, for the people who are lucky enough to be in good circumstances, we have no choice but to want to help out people who are not as lucky.
And yea, it is kinda sad that way, but then again I have no choice but to choose the action that will make me feel best which is to not let this get to me, explore this thought a little more to see why its not such a bad thing, so that I can feel better, and to just laugh at it. and say
Oh well, I guess I'm a biological robot out to do good.
