r/DebateAnAtheist Sep 23 '24

Shouldn't atheists refuse meaning in life and accept its inherently bad ? Philosophy

Atheism arises from rationality i.e logic. If God doesn't exist (obviously doesn't) then you can't say there is a grand plan ! Existence is just pointless. In a pointless existence we have wars, crimes, predation, natural disasters, torture, exploitation and slavery, accidents, diseases and many more inevitable sufferings going on. Nobody can stop these these are inevitable.

Can you deny these facts ? If not then the only rational solution for existence is extinctionism. Extinction of all conscious sentient living beings. As rationalists you must agree to that ?

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u/Pandoras_Boxcutter Sep 23 '24

Existence is just pointless

Why would that be? Just because there's no creator doesn't mean life can't be meaningful.

 In a pointless existence we have wars, crimes, predation, natural disasters, torture, exploitation and slavery, accidents, diseases and many more inevitable sufferings going on

If you're a theist, those things are happening regardless. What's God's excuse?

Nobody can stop these these are inevitable.

We can stop some of them at least some of the time.

 If not then the only rational solution for existence is extinctionism.

Why?

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u/efilist_sentientist Sep 23 '24

1) What is it ? What is that meaning?

2) I'm atheist.

3) Stopping them some of the time is not a good excuse. Because it's actually saying that children might get ra*ed some of the times.

4) 3 is why !

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u/roseofjuly Atheist Secular Humanist Sep 23 '24

But that is reality. Children do get raped some of the time. We would like to prevent all of them, but we haven't figured out a way to do that.

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u/Extinction_For_All Sep 23 '24

Making everyone extinct is the way.