One of the great topics of philosophy is about the meaning of life and what make life worth living, there are philosophers who encounter the answer to this question in religion, others in some kind of rational reflection about a meaningful live, based on virtues, and there are those who believe that the chances of having a life with more pain than pleasure are so high that generate another human being is immoral, those are called antinatalists.
A careful examination of the conditions we live our lives will probably lead to the conclusion that life is an absurd, after all why we subject ourselves to so much suffer, why risk so much for so brief moments of happiness? But the problem is that a life cannot be examined by pain and pleasures calculations, because we are so attach to these brief moments of happiness that a person can died happy because of just one of them. Human live is an ocean of sadness and madness, but humanity is such a strange thing that most of us still make the choice of keep swimming to feel the diluted taste of the feel drops of joy in it.
That is the reason why world views like utilitarianism and antinatalism do not appeal to most of us, we have to much hope even when we fool ourselves thinking that we don't. Our instincts fight to no let us drown in our sorrow. That is the burden of humanity, the consciousness of the power of our survival instincts and the weakness of our reason against it.
So what are we after all? madman? sage? something different? An error? The point is, having free will or not we are like Sartre said condemned to be free.
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