citation needed. Are you claiming that some invisible hand assigned me to this planet and this time in history for reason specifically tied to myself?
> it is by no means random
Please provide evidence.
citation needed. Are you claiming that some invisible hand assigned me to this planet and this time in history for reason specifically tied to myself?
> it is by no means random
Please provide evidence.
We don't seem to get wrapped up in questions of why a particular tree is "that" tree and not some other tree. It seems to me, as an atheist, that once you start carving out a special metaphysical nature for humans you're dabbling in the religious.
What requires evidence is this spiritual "you" that was "assigned" to this planet. If we admit that, whether the mechanism is a spiritual hand or a spiritual lottery machine is purely a theological question.
This isn't some mere abstract debate - the meme you're expressing is a radical egalitarian (Protestant) system of ethics being smuggled in under a secular guise.