Hello again. This question might be similar to 'Do we have a purpose?' but here I have decided to take a very pessimistic (realistic?) view on the issue.
Is 'all this' for nothing? By 'all this', I mean everything; everything we do, we know, we see and remember. Aren't we all in a linear process that we call 'life' which starts at birth and ends at death? If so, of what use is it to us the way we live?
Let me take two men who have gone through this linear process; Messrs. Karamchand Gandhi and Adolf Hitler. While the former has lived a life of peace, the latter has gone through this process by means of war. The former is very famous and the latter is notorious for their ways of living their lives. Co-incidentally, both of them died in more or less the same way.
My point is, how are these two 'lives' different? Both of these people in question are dead; they are no more. So why should they worry if the future humans think of them as good or bad? What good is there to Mr. Gandhi when all of us are praising him or what bad is there to Mr. Hitler when we criticize him? They are dead, right? Why should they worry?
Thinking on these lines, why should anyone need to live in a 'good' way and uplift mankind? Why should he not live in a 'bad' way? It's not going to matter; he would die all the same. People may argue that if every inventor thought like this, we would still be like animals living in the dark ages. My answer is, what's wrong in such a life? The animals, they are born, live the way they want to and finally die. They don't look for 'virtues' or 'vices'. Is living like that 'bad'? Just think.
The only possible answer to this might be that we want the future humans to be in a 'better' place than we are. We want to tell them that 'fire is hot', 'jumping from cliffs leads to death' and other things so that they are in a better place than us. But how do we know that these are 'better'? If the first humans decided not to make their children be in a better place, we would be like them, like animals. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Maybe death has a lot of answers to these questions.
Cheers,
Ravi Teja R.
