How can we (the human race) justify our existence?

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Your question begs the issue.

To ask, how can we justify our existence? is to presuppose that humans are capable of such an act. In short, we have the means to make justifications.

Now, if we asked, how can lions justify their existence? we would seem to think it absurd as a question for they lack the cognitive skills to make justificaitons (or least not the skills to express such an act to humans).

Our justification for existence, then, is the fact that we make justifications. No other being can do this act, and it seems the universe (or God) needed such creatures within it. As such, our existence is justified by our being able to make justifications.

we exist because God created us.

I;m beginning to realize that we can not.

The question makes the assumption that we have to justify it.
To whom? God? Us? Some other higher power?

The very fact we exist, is in itself a proclamation, that we deserve to be here.

we exist because we decide what the meaning of our own life is, those who don't find or make the meaning for themselves die.

Why do we need to justify our existence????

We're here, deal with it!!!

It is my mind which thinks, and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

We can justify our existence by being who we are and by continuing to grow and learn.

This philosophical question is an old one, and has been discussed and argued over by philosophers from Aristotle, through Avicenna, Aquinas, Scotus, Descartes,Hume, Kant and many others.
Questions:
* What is the meaning of life?
* Why are we here? What are we here for?
* What is the origin of life?
* What is the nature of life (and of reality itself)?
* What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?
* What is the significance of life?
* What is meaningful or valuable in life?
* What is the value of life?
* What is the reason to live? What are we living for?
and answers on that questions justifying our existence

No. The idea that God made us special is dogma based on wishful delusion. And with the way we pollute the planet and deplete resources, the earth would probably be better off without us. We live and reproduce simply because we can.

By fighting for truth, justice and freedom.

"I think therefore I exist"

That we exist means we have definite functions to carry out in fulfilling God's purpose for all of His creation.So no life needs to be a waste!Find out your purpose in Christ Jesus!!!

I'll say-
Because we're beautiful, amazing, and wonderful.
Because we can, and will do amazing things.
Because we can, and will do things that can be done by no others than ourselves.

I'll ask-
Why do we have to justify ourselves?
And to whom would we justify ourselves anyway?

Well, we are here, aren't we?