2) Everything is Meaningless...?

          What are the most common defenses given to the assertion that everything is meaningless?  When asked, someone who holds this view just might give you a miniature sermon covering everything from hurricanes to Hitler: “Do you not see humanity?  Do you not know of child sex trafficking abroad, or the amount of child molestation here in your own country?  Do you not know of Hitler, Stalin, the Rwandan genocides, ISIS, etc. and how all the people in those cultures were just going along with it as if there was nothing wrong?  Did you not see the devastation of Hurricane Katrina or the earthquake in Haiti?”
          To this, I might quite legitimately respond with confusion.  Why, after all, does this man care about the death of billions of innocent men, women and children if everything is meaningless?  If everything is meaningless, then so too are the lives of humans.  The very most that a death could be to someone, on the cynic’s view, is inconvenient.  For a man with his convictions to be quite so indignant about the mass death of millions is quite the same as if I became indignant at the fact that men heartlessly trample over dirt, day-in and day-out.