What/who in the world does justify its existence and to whom?
Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?
#12Why would I need to justify it? Justify it to whom?
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#13By not adopting marxist based ideologies
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#15easy.
people live and conduct business inside of my work product, perhaps for generations.
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#16I never thought of having to justify my existence
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#18I suppose the moral framework I've got is that you don't have to justify your existence. For me I try to basically do what I think is probably right, or at least make personal changes in that general direction (e.g. I'm not vegan or vegetarian but I do skip meat/animal products a lot). But you know, existence comes before any of that.
Beyond that it's not really justification so much as survival instinct. But it wouldn't be right to make others justify their existence, so you shouldn't have to justify your own.
Re: Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?
#19In my mind justifying anything implies an appeal to a higher power who is demanding an account for actions.
Are you concerned with a power demanding reason for your being human? If so, What power? Why do you consider such, "higher"?
Re: Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?
#20My existence is self-justifying, or more correctly, requires no justification. As Rand put it, life is an end in itself, i.e. the ultimate end of all your actions and purpose.