Recently, due to my behavior I have decided that sometimes it is more rational to just give up rather than keep on pushing for it/something. I feel like I have given up, and have become content with it. Not, that I'm special here or anything; but, other people don't want other people to give up. I ask why is this so? — Wallows
Giving up is contrary to the innate purpose of anything in nature. This is not an external purpose handed over by God or society but inside any organism itself. Anything in nature has a potential that it strives to maximize. A tree will try to get as much water and sunlight it needs to reach its strongest and most healthy state. It will grow its roots and stretch its branches for that purpose. (Unconsciously of course, since a tree has no consciousness.)
An animal will also try to fulfill its maximum for itself and its young.
Only human beings can go against their own purpose and be deliberately self-destructive because of this nasty thing called a free will. At the same time that’s what makes us ethically relevant creatures. In fact, ethics is all about making our will conform to what is in our nature. Ethics teaches us not to hurt others (that is, not obstructing their nature) but it is just as much about not hurting ourselves.
It is unethical to obstruct our own nature because nature defines what is ethical in the first place. In the absence of religious authorities, nature tells us what is right and wrong. — Congau
The tree would never give up stretching out for water and sunlight. The wolf would never give up looking for prey. That would be self-destructive. Nothing in nature ever settles for what is second best even if it could survive without it.giving up isn't self-destructive is it? — Wallows
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