>>10901564>Is there any valid reason to stay alive in this day and age?This is a philosophical question that has been asked as long as recorded history and probably long before that. Difference about now over then is mostly just that we have more awareness that it's been asked so many times before (because we have recorded history and access to things like the internet / info).
The answer is highly dependent upon your perspective, as you're basically asking, "how then should we live?" since the implication is that the obvious alternative to living is being dead. Again, inquiring as to the meaning or purpose of life is a philosophical question that lies at the core of the human condition: What are we / What is our purpose / What happens when we die? These essential questions have been asked forever - as long as humans have had sentience and any path to express meaning or communication.
If I were to hand you an answer as a now ancient 36 year old phaggot, I would tell you that it's easy to dismiss everything as zero-sum nihilism (nothing matters) until you apply nihilism to meaning and realize that nihilism squared = absurdism. Everything is equally meaningless, so just as everything = nothing, then nothing = everything. Absurdism is nihilism applied to itself and to the entire field of philosophy and meaning. It's the idea that if all actions are equally zero-sum and meaningless, then all actions can be potentially be made meaningful (even in the face of nihilism and entropy) if you're able to acknowledge your situation.
That's more or less Albert Camus and the "Absurd Hero." The person who fully acknowledges nihilism and persists regardless. They embrace life, regardless. Because honestly there is no other means to life.
