4) Everything is Meaningless...?

          From here, the cynic might take another line of defense.  He might say that meaning is totally subjective.  No meaning exists, says he, except that which is synthesized by each individual man.  This is an effective way to say that the world is meaningless while also justifying his indignance with humanity.  Now when the cynic speaks of his indignance at humanity, he speaks in terms of his own personal synthesis of meaning.
          This hardly helps to deflect the cynic’s problem.  He has synthesized his own meaning.  Very well.  To use his own terminology, so did Hitler.  So did Stalin.  So did the Rwandans.  And, if I may say so in jest, hurricanes and the earth’s tectonic plates are certainly in the “make your own meaning” business!  The cynic’s grounds for indignance have once again crumbled.  If meaning is totally invented, then who is he to judge Hitler or Stalin or the Rwandans?  Either meaning is totally subjective, in which case indignance toward these ills is a rather arrogant clinging to one’s own view, or there is such a thing as true, objective meaning, in which case indignance is deserved, but cynicism and the view that everything is meaningless becomes hogwash.