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FOR some, of course, the answer is simple — to fulfil God’s purpose.
That answer itself comes in a variety of different guises — from the obligation to honour God (as if an omnipotent being requires the obsequies of lesser beings that s/he created) to perhaps more virtuous or creditable purposes — living honestly, frugally and virtuously; doing unto others as you would be done by, and so on.
It is perhaps a feature of our species that, unlike other species, we “need” a purpose, individually or collectively, beyond mere existence.
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