What makes me Optimistic: Human Beings Are Different

Now that we’ve gotten false notions of “god” out of the way, we come up against the question from which He insulated us: if human beings are not the “chosen” species, then are we at least capable of transcending nature, from which we emerge?

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Posted by Russell Blackford  on  01/04  at  01:56 AM

Well said!

Posted by  on  05/12  at  03:23 AM

It seems incredibly ironic that you present the idea of humans being 'different' yet simultaneously suggest that we are essentially the same as every other organism on this planet.

It's also absolutely absurd to play this out as 'optimism'. If we have no inherent meaning then created meaning has even less to offer. What could you, a finite being, possibly gain from living life according to something you've created, when you can't even explain how it is you yourself came to exist?

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