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**WaydayTew** · 10-04-2011, 09:00 PM

What I meant was "is it really as important as your life itself, as important as living, enjoying yourself, realizing your dreams, etc." to have children, because we are only life beings and life beings are meant to procreate or lose all value ?"

Well that's an easy one.

No.

If you want more specifics I shall provide two hints to my philosophy;
1. The means is also the end.
which is particularly important given that
2. The literal end will _always_ be futile.

Addressing point two first. Excepting matters of faith the universe will only be able to support life of any conceivable or unconceivable type for a finite amount of time. If the only value of life is that it begets further life then there is no value to life.

Which brings us round to point one. People often put forwards answers that, to a greater or lesser extent, depend on "The end justifies the means." What they usually miss is that every point towards 'the end' and every means used is part of the end result obtained. Otherwise you could justify 'hell' for a billion years if you get 'heaven' for one second at the end of it. Given that the ultimate end is with absolute certainty complete death for every lifeform in the universe any evaluation which doesn't include the value of quality of life in the present is pretty futile.

10-04-2011, 09:00 PM	#5
WaydayTew Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	What I meant was "is it really as important as your life itself, as important as living, enjoying yourself, realizing your dreams, etc." to have children, because we are only life beings and life beings are meant to procreate or lose all value ?" Well that's an easy one. No. If you want more specifics I shall provide two hints to my philosophy; 1. The means is also the end. which is particularly important given that 2. The literal end will _always_ be futile. Addressing point two first. Excepting matters of faith the universe will only be able to support life of any conceivable or unconceivable type for a finite amount of time. If the only value of life is that it begets further life then there is no value to life. Which brings us round to point one. People often put forwards answers that, to a greater or lesser extent, depend on "The end justifies the means." What they usually miss is that every point towards 'the end' and every means used is part of the end result obtained. Otherwise you could justify 'hell' for a billion years if you get 'heaven' for one second at the end of it. Given that the ultimate end is with absolute certainty complete death for every lifeform in the universe any evaluation which doesn't include the value of quality of life in the present is pretty futile.
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