Maybe she helped or encouraged someone else at a key moment in their life. Maybe she saved an abandoned cat. Even a small contribution is valuable.
As it pertains to the lives of everyday people? Yes it is. As it pertains to the Universe? Absolutely not.
Tell me, who has ever lived on this planet that has ever contributed anything to the Universe?
Unless we are being monitored by some other intelligent life in the Cosmos (or they stumbled onto something of our in space) and that effect ripples until an event of great importance happens we haven’t…ergo all of our lives are meaningless.
Everything will one day come to an end: humanity, the earth, the planets and stars…all will become lifeless until another Big Bang cycle hopefully produces another set of miniscule planets that manage to develop life. You realize that no human has ever done more than influence other humans who live on this planet. It is that influence that has given humanity meaning. If we are an influence for good, then our lives have been worthwhile. If you cannot believe that, then humanity is nothing more than a biological blip in a virtually 100% lifeless, meaningless universe.
Exactly. You seem repulsed at the idea.
I’m repulsed by the idea that, no matter your views on the afterlife, your view of the here-and-now includes so little compassion as to feel no remorse at wishing someone who repulses you dead. Such a negative outlook on your fellow humans is really far more damning than publicly drinking from ketchup bottles.
It’s not just the act, it’s the reason she did it. The reason she did it ties into my overall look humanity and the universe.
Yeah, people shouldn’t do things that they enjoy.
Why do exemplary people matter, then? Don’t they matter just as little as everyone else?
With enough time we can have the technology to bend the laws of reality to our whim. If humanity were more ‘focused’ this would come to fruition in less time. Could be thousands of years, could be millions. That part is pointless to speculate.
That won’t happen, though. It’s a fantasy.