La vie vaut-elle la peine d'être vécue?
I'm reading Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Camus, and I'm in a very existentialist mood. I've only read a couple of pages so far, but one of the first things Camus goes into in this essay on the absurd is whether life is worth the pain of living. And I'm not sure if it is or not, so I've created a little poll for you, with the options I feel people are most likely to choose.
I myself cannot decide how to vote. My initial thought was "yes, for happiness," because extracting laughter and happiness from the world is my way of dealing with its lack of deeper meaning. However, to say that the happiness I experience in my comfortable Western life balances out the misery of, say, Chinese factory workers who work 100 hours a week for 20p an hour, seems incredibly selfish. So I suppose I'll go with no.
Interesting issue, so please tell me your thoughts as well as voting.
Poll
I myself cannot decide how to vote. My initial thought was "yes, for happiness," because extracting laughter and happiness from the world is my way of dealing with its lack of deeper meaning. However, to say that the happiness I experience in my comfortable Western life balances out the misery of, say, Chinese factory workers who work 100 hours a week for 20p an hour, seems incredibly selfish. So I suppose I'll go with no.
Interesting issue, so please tell me your thoughts as well as voting.
Poll