Darklord wrote:
depends if it will help you achieve something you want.Is it logical to want to succeed?
I'm sure that there is a reason for it.Why do you want to succeed?
Same as what is "happy" (I referred to this somewhere else in the forum). "Success," like all others, is just a word made up by a select group of people who had something in mind when they decided to create it. Somehow, one feels pressured to act by these type of words, probably due to the importance given to it by the collective insecurity we call 'society.'What constitutes "success"?
Here is the problem. It won't be logical to die if you want to help the rest of the species. It all depends on what you consider as 'helping' that is. What I think happens is that we are often caught in the crossfire of people's competing interests. An example of this is the conflict between those who claim they want to save the planet and those who apparently want to destroy it. One side will make you feel that producing waste is disgusting, and that humanity is all about greedy consumption and destroying the planet. The other side does not see what the big deal is, and continues to contaminate without really caring about the consequences not related to wealth. It's ironic that while one is flushing the toilet and contributing to contamination, the other lives in a house built on fine land. In the meantime, individuals get influenced by the strength and power that is mass human organization.If you look at it, wouldn't it be just as logical to want to die and not have to continue striving for anything, and also helping the rest of the species by giving them one less mouth to feed and trash can to empty?
Forget about what other people tell you is right, because you won't be able to find any logical explanation when the goals you follow are made by others own interest.
This also has to do with what I said. Why is it important to be remembered and have an effect on the future? Of course it is completely illogical because we weren't the ones finding this important in the first place...Your success will, unless it is extraordinary, be forgotten in ten years, except for by your friends and family, and even if it is extraordinary, it will be forgotten in 1000. If not 1000 years, then 10.000. It will also probably have no effect on the future to any significant degree. If it is significant, it'll probably be used for perverted purposes.
What kind of mark do you want to leave behind?
Why should humanity survive? Is survival logical? If so, can you show me the deep-down basis for survival?
My point is, while logic can determine everything else, it can not give you a basic goal from which to build, no matter how logically you do so.