Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th...
by jm__87 on Monday January 29, 2018 @12:56PM
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So what if life objectively has no meaning? You can only experience it through your own subjective viewpoint, so why not find something that is subjectively meaningful to you?
Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th...
by where_do_i_live on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:40PM
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And there lies the problem. That means your lack of existence is on par with anything else. So you can find something random meaningful to you or poof just end it early.
Usually this leads to drugs first and not outright suicide, but it is still nonetheless quite harmful to the individual.
Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th...
by jm__87 on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @09:10AM
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I think you missed my point... your lack of existence is on par with anything else, to some objective observer. You are not an objective observer. You can choose to care about yourself. You just have to accept the trade off that caring about something means there will inevitably be some pain to go along with it too when things don't work out the way you want.
I can only speak for myself, of course, and in my case, the ever increasing access to information and social contacts, actually eliminates the hope of finding any large-scale meaning in this world, ever-so-gradually, when you keep failing to see any point no matter what you learn and who you meet.
Not exactly depression, maybe it falls under nihilism, but.. Everything just is, and it doesn't ultimately matter what you do.
I suspect that even if I had a starship capable of traveling to other worlds, and a long enough lifespan to see them all, I'd still find everything ultimately pointless.