How do you determine life's meaning in the face of gross injustices?

Answer 1

Meaning comes from what you do with what life throws you. The world can be a dark place or a good place. It really depends on what you dwell on and focus one and what you do about the things that you worry about.
If you want meaning then work to right injustices and help others and bring some light into this world. Not everyone sucks or is unjust. But we do need to be selective about who we choose to be with and take actions that line up with our beliefs. Beliefs are empty without actions that show our desires to right wrongs, give grace or kindness to others etc.
Meaning to me is found in what I choose to focus on and do I to the best of my ability seek to life my beliefs.
Good Luck. Good question

Answer 2

I suppose there are several ways to do so. First, you might accept that there is no meaning to lie except what we give it. That doesn't mean that life is meaningless, but that the order we impose upon it has no relation to transcendant truths.

If, however, you do believe that there is a meaning to life that goes beyond what we make it, there are other alternatives. The Indian concept of karma has a certain appeal--that our actions and reactions as a whole affect our future existence. For example, evil that we generate will eventually find its way back to us. Karma implies that there are no injustices in the ultimate or long term sense.

If, however, you think that there is a divine entity (Karma is a principle of the way the universe operates, not a god), then the problem gets furthered muddled. Most monotheists take succour in the fact that all is part of God's plan. Take that as you will.

But if there is something that has specifically or personally bothered you, there is an old Jewish saying: "Remember to praise God when you are young, because you may curse him when you are old."

Answer 3

Each person has to come to that on their own.

Consider this however, those gross injustices are brought about by humans not life in and of itself.

That's to say; if you were the only human on earth those injustices would no longer exist but your life would.

Answer 4

The same way you determine life's meaning in the face of benign indifference or noble fairness!

We all come up with our own philosophies of life. If we're trying to base it on a clear-eyed perception of life in all its aspects, then the meaning is the same whether we're immediately faced with gloriousness or depravity.

Some derived philosophies based on some delusion about the nature of life, or on habits of thought formed before full awareness set in--and in that case the answer is the same except the person isn't likely to acknowledge the existence of any aspects of life that contradict their cherished notions. People like that may see life as unremittingly positive or brutally negative, with nothing in between.

When all's said and done, it's your unique determination.

Answer 5

:) there are no "gross injustices" are only lessons of LIFE. Maybe is better to question how your mind "determine" the way you judge that something right or wrong occurred.

Answer 6

Each person has to find their own method of maintaining sanity and a grip on life, in the face of evil and injustice.

Each person finds their individual "meaning" to life.

For some, it may involve marriage and family.
For another, it might be teaching an academic subject or tutoring a young artist or musician.
For another, it might be complete, total hedonism.
For another, it might be the life of a slacker; taking the path of least resistance wherever possible.

Answer 7

I reverse the problem.

Injustices are based on human conceptions of fairness. When we insist on fairness, we are also faced with very unpleasant outcomes.

I was never provided a guarantee of fairness at birth, nor was anyone else that I have ever met. Life can be very unfair. We are an intelligent species and can cope with any unfairness that life has to offer.

Answer 8

You have connected meaning in life to justice. Good. If we are all here by accident, and we invent our own meaning and our own morality, then that connection cannot exist except as our own personal feelings.

Christians believe that feelings arising from our conscience points to our Creator. For those who think that God doesn't exist, then our feelings point to nothing more noble than a little shot of "feel good" drug through a mechanism evolution has provided.

Answer 9

looking in to a newborn baby's eyes and feeling he/she clench your finger,

random acts of kindness,

a genuine smile from a stranger,

no one ever said life was easy, find happiness in the simple things

Answer 10

after what you did to me in the club life has no meaning