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[demonfox13]

Kantor said:
This is nothing new. It's the very basis of nationalism. That guy over there who was born in the same arbitrarily defined area of a landmass as me did something good, so I should be proud of it.

When you get down to it, why should you be proud of anything that anybody has done?

Analysing every aspect of human behaviour is ridiculous, because there's no real "point" to anything that anybody does. Save somebody's life? They'll still be dead in 70 years. 70 years out of the billions which the universe has existed.

This is where you fail to see the beauty of being a human being and are an absolute pessimist. No I am not talking about religion or any ideology outside of what we can all see. In that mere fraction of time that is 70 measly years humans, cry, laugh, smile, love, hate, suffer, work, play, hope, dream among sooooo many other things.....all in that fraction of time. Something most of our solar system never gets to experience and perhaps a good portion of this thing we call a universe. Our existence is much more precious than you yourself realize. Out of the billions of years in just a fraction of that time we accomplish so much by simply living that it's amazing. You have every right to be a pessimist but to view our small existence as nearly insignificant shows that you either have little grasp of what being a human is all about, or you see the human race (including yourself) as a doomed existence with little worth. Just think about that for a moment.