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I believe that nothing in the universe matters except for emotions. CMV.
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Basically, I think that things only matter because we care about them; we have feelings for them.

For example: people have no inherent right to life, so killing a person isn't somehow "wrong". However, that person will suffer (which is inherently bad), and their family will be distressed over the loss (which is also bad). So crimes such as this aren't wrong - it's just better if you don't do them.

Or: the Universe will probably end at some point. If there were no life in the Universe, no one would care and it wouldn't make any difference. If I were the last person alive, I wouldn't care, because no one will be around in 1,000,000,...,000 years to notice the difference. However, I do care about it because there might be people living then, and if the universe could no longer support them, they would no longer have the joys of life. This would be unfavorable to me since it's basically taking away people's happiness, so I don't want the Universe to have some kind of heat death, or irreversible expansion, or whatever.


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  • Give an example of how something could be good, even if no one would ever want it, enjoy it, or be happier because of it

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