Does life really matter?

Question

Did the T-Rex alive 65 million years ago think about the kind of world it was leaving behind when it was it was eating another dinosaur? Or even when it was dying. Did it worry that its ofspring would not have enough meat to live?

Why then is humanity so obsessed with environmental issues, recycling and some humans even forgo meat to impress others.

Who cares what happens in a hundred years or even a million. We will all be dust by then. We are tought to care about the environment our ofspring will live in, yet they are not taught to care about the environment we die in.

Pollution and the environment is the next generations problem, not ours. If I die at 45 will my ofspring really care about wether I get 1st class private ticket to the end or a second class budget ticket?

Deppressing thoughts for a 26 year old, but its the truth. The media trains us to care about the next generation, not informing us that all they will want is our money.

Answer 1

That question will be debated long after your dead, I'm dead, and still no one will have a definite answer.

Answer 2

What humanity is really protecting progress and technology. No race or animal has been able to reach off of the planet's surface except for humanity the only ones with intelligence. Concern for the environment is only concern for a habitat for maintaining progress. Just think how sad it would be if the world ended today and no force in the universe ever came as far ever again in terms of recognizing its own existence and reaching out into the universe and discovering things. All of the progress would be lost. Then imagine if there was no God and this happened. Its kinda disturbing but all humanity can really do is advance in scientific exploration and entertain itself.

Answer 3

I don't know if you would agree with me on this but I hope it helps.
Life is very precious. Your life is very precious. God loves you and sepcifically you. Only He can love everyone on this planet and at the same time love you as if you were the only person living on this earth. He loved you so much that He died in your place on that cross so that you would not have to be away from Him for eternity. He wants to be with you. God created you with a special purpose for you. But He wants you to choose Him first. He will never forcefully enter anyone's life. It is your choice. When you ask Him into your life He will come to you. God created you to love Him and to be loved by Him. He has great things planned for you if only you would turn to Him. He cannot work in someone's life if that person does not want Him in their life. Nobody else may care about you but God loves you deeply (does not matter how bad you may have been). He loved you into existance. That is what makes life worth living. Knowing that someone loves and always will no matter what. However, turning to Him does not mean the end of your problems here on earth. Maybe your problems may increase as a result of knowing the Lord. But God will always be with you in life even after death. But first you have to choose Him. He is waiting for you to do that. If you have more doubts or questions I am posting a web address below. It maybe helpful. Try it out.

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Answer 4

I think a lot of this goes back to the moral argument: Man has within him a moral nature, a sense of “oughtness”; where did it come from?

You see, there arises in all of us, in any culture, universal feelings of right and wrong. Wherever you go, people in every place and every walk of life, say things like: “That’s not fair.” “How would you like it if someone did that to you?” “That’s my seat, I was there first.” “Come on, you promised.” When people say things like that, they are appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which they expect the other person to know.

The other person doesn’t say, “forget your standard,” but almost always tries to make an excuse to show that they really didn’t go against the standard. As C.S. Lewis said about this standard, “...the moment anyone tells me I am not keeping it, there starts up in my mind a string of excuses as long as your arm.” You know, there are reasons why you should be let off the hook. That time you were unfair to the children was when you were very tired. That slightly shady business about the money came when you were very hard-up. You never would have promised that if you would have known how busy you were going to be. And then comes the argument between these two people. It is clear that they both believe in a standard or they couldn’t argue about it. You can’t argue that a football player committed a foul unless there is some agreement about the rules of football.

If morality is simply something learned from our culture, as many want us to believe, then why are the moral teachings of the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Indians, Greeks and Romans so very similar? Has there ever been a culture where people were admired for running away in battle? Or admired for being selfish (even though they might differ about who you should be unselfish to)? Men have differed on things like whether you should have one wife or four, but they have always agreed that you must not simply have any woman you liked. In the words of Thomas C. Mayberry, “There is broad agreement that lying, promise breaking, killing, and so on are generally wrong.”

And whenever you find someone who says they don’t believe in right or wrong, you will find them going back on it a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you break one to him, he will immediately be complaining “It’s not fair!” Even a thief gets upset and feels wronged when someone steals from him. As it has been said, “If there is no God, no atheist can object on moral grounds if I want to kill him.”

I had an atheist friend some years back that I would always argue creation/evolution with. One day he came in and told me how mad he got from watching a documentary on the Holocaust. I can’t remember exactly what I said, but I thought, “Why are you so mad; it’s just survival of the fittest, right? You don’t even believe there is such a thing as right and wrong.” You see, no matter how much he denies it, he feels that standard as well as I do.

So, where did it come from? We don’t see it in animals (as you mentioned). A dog doesn’t feel guilt from stealing another dog’s bone. Apes don’t sit down and talk about morals and ethics. If an ox gores a man to death, it is not arrested, tried, and condemned to the electric chair. We recognize its inability to make moral judgments and so we might just confine it in a sturdier pen and warn people to stay away. If we evolved from animals, how did we come to be moral creatures who care about the invironment, etc.?

Could non-moral matter combined with time and chance be an adequate cause for this? If people are merely products of physical evolution and “survival of the fittest,” why do we sacrifice for each other? Where does courage, dying for a cause, love, dignity, duty, and compassion come from? This seems to be the opposite of what evolution would produce. In a struggle for survival, will the existence of a conscience help or hinder survival? As John Adam has said, “...according to the evolutionary principle of survival of the fittest, a loving human with a conscience is at a great disadvantage and would be unlikely to have survived the evolutionary process.”

This is no trivial, insignificant question. If there is no God, then there is no Supreme Being to which we must give an account—no Judgment Day, no heaven or hell. There is no right or wrong, no good or evil. We should live by the saying, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”

But if there is a God—well, that’s a different story. Are we an accident, or the image of God? Are we without purpose, or have an eternal goal? Do we live like an animal, or like a child of God? In the end, is it dust, or eternity? I suggest you do your best to find out for sure.

Answer 5

The world is only a few thousand years old. Darwin needed millions of years for his theory of evolution because we have plenty of recorded history of humans during the last few thousand years.

Some people care only for themselves and today. There are others who have made it their mission in life to build bridges for the next generation. I like to compare it to married men. Some men only care about themselves and don't care what happens to their family after they're gone. Other men are concerned that their families are provided for after they're gone.

Answer 6

Personally, I've never cared much for LIFE. I've always been a fan of Monopoly and Mouse Trap. Now those are real thinker games!!!

Answer 7

We have destroyed much of the protective layer that shields us from the bad rays of the sun. Skin cancer is prevalent.
We need to cover ourselves when going outdoors.
Life of course matters, cos when we're dead, that's it.
But what's left by us for our 'OFFSPRING"? The water level is rising, the ice in alaska is fast melting, it is affecting the ice climate of the pollar bears, and other animals. We are to blame. We should take care not to abuse this world we live in.

Answer 8

Yeah, everything Hitler, Stalin, and Mao didn't matter when they did since it would be future generations that would have to deal with the repercussions. It is hard to believe, but the world does encompass more than yourself.

Answer 9

Of course it matters, a really stupid person would never understand that.

Jonnie

Answer 10

Life is something to occupy your time when you can't sleep.