Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?

Do you rely on the "proof of money+taxes" provided by society? or do you have a different perspective? are you vegetarian or something? only free software? I am curious to know what moral framework people are operating under.

There is no justification for existence. It just is.

I use both free and non-free software all the time. I have a gaming PC with Windows and a laptop with Trisquel on it for my daily driver. Call me a hypocrite if you must but you can get the best of both worlds if you allow for that and aren’t so zealous for ‘the one true way’.

Since one doesn’t need permission to exist, I do not think it makes sense to ask how a person justifies their existence.

There isn’t some cosmic ledger that keeps account of the credit you earn to exist.

Now, I exist because I’m in a very long line of the Darwinian process, but it will end with me because I won’t be procreating.

I would only feel a need to justify my existence if my baseline activities gave a net burden on the world, like if I wrote robocalling software for a living. Or maybe if my activities were inconsequential to anyone at all.