Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years

Re:Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years by jonfw on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:12PM (#20821774)

I'm not much of a philsopher, but if you're at all interested in the other side of thinking I would suggest Viktor Frankl. He was a jewish person in a nazi concentration camp and he make a much stronger argument than I can for this point of view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl

> After enduring the suffering in these camps, Frankl concluded that even in the most absurd, painful, and dehumanized situation, life has potential meaning and that, therefore, even suffering is meaningful.

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Re:Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years by GeneralTspoon on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:36PM (#20822049)

Not to minimize his suffering, but spending ~3 years out of his 92 year life being tortured isn't the same as a whole life of torture with no meaning or hope of escape.

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Re:Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years by Relys on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:28PM (#20822572)

Yeah, it's not like the Nazi's were breeding Jews for the express purpose of a life of slavery, torture, and slaughter.

I think comparing it is a false equivalency. Also Godwin's Law.

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Re:Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years by rhn_mk1 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:34PM (#20822029)

Thank you for the link!

After reading a little bit about meaning, it seems that it's something that has to be found first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_(existential)

so even if there's meaning in the most miserable of lives, it's not guaranteed that it will be found. However, I haven't found anything suggesting that meaning makes life worth living, only a passing mention of it bringing happiness, which doesn't square with my understanding of torture or concentration camps. Am I misunderstanding what meaning is?

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