A question to an honest (= Materialist) Atheist

[Zeroeth_Nature (Self-Lightening, ΑΘΕΛΗΜΑ,)]

@TheIllustriousMrCat

I require you to give me answers true to materialism. You must not veer into spirituality, metaphysical or anything else non-physical.

Material and physical aren’t necessarily the same thing.

@TheIllustriousMrCat

I want to ask you why you choose to live.

@TheIllustriousMrCat

why you choose to live and not die right now?

You mean, like, why do I choose to breathe and not not breathe right now? Or: why do I choose to breathe air and not Zyklon B right now? Or: why did I choose to eat food and not cyanide just now? Or: why will I probably step out the door in the morning and not out the window? Or: why will I probably cross the road safely and not jump in front of a car?

@Zeroeth_Nature

“[W]hy bother?” Well, you have to bother; you can’t not bother. Even just in order to kill yourself, you’d still have to bother. Even if you were to “try” to kill yourself by just not trying anymore, not moving anymore, people would come and keep you alive, at least until they’d moved you through the whole euthanasia trajectory (if that even exists in your country). And even more importantly, you yourself are a person: you yourself have all kinds of irrational life instincts. And the thing with the irrational is that you can’t reason it away.