What Do Pessimistic Memes Reveal About the “Value” of Life
English version: “Life is a gift, isn’t it?! Most members of the animal kingdom are born without their own consent, only to experience a world in which the entire driving force of life amounts to nothing more than fleeing from suffering and chasing fleeting pleasures! How utterly beautiful all of this is. God, our loving and perfect Lord, certainly knew what He was doing when He fashioned our bodily constitution—highly refined nerve endings for the experience of pain, a brain sophisticated enough to recognize itself as an ontological mistake, and a host of physiological processes that compel us to harm other beings like ourselves, for otherwise we perish and vanish as though we had never existed in the first place. Nature, in its magnificent spectacle of creating–preying–parasitizing–competing–annihilating–repeating, is always indispensable to the cycle of life and to the Creator’s grand design! After all, all of these miseries exist for the sake of our happiness and our future b...