Just a thought :

If man has no destiny, then he has no duty. No obligation, no responsibility. If man has no destiny, then he has no guidelines or goals. If man has no destiny, then who is to say what is right and what is wrong? Who is to say that a husband can’t leave his wife and family? Who is to say that you can’t abort a fetus? What is wrong with shacking up? Who says I can’t step on someone’s neck to get to the top? It’s your value system against mine. No absolute. No principles. No ethics. No standards. Life is reduced to weekends, paychecks and quick thrills. The bottom line is disaster.

“The existentialist,” writes existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, “finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with him all the possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven… Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend on within or without himself.”

If man has no duty or destiny, the next logical step is that man has no value. If man has no future, he isn’t worth much. He is worth, in fact, about as much as a tree or a rock. No difference. There is no reason to be here; therefore, there is no value.

And you’ve seen the results of this. Our system goes haywire. We feel useless and worthless. We freak out. We play games. We create false value systems. We say that you are valuable if you are pretty. We say that you are valuable if you can produce. We say that you are valuable if you can slam-dunk a basketball or snag a pop fly. You are valuable if your name has a “Dr.” in front of it or Ph.D. on the end of it. You are valuable if you have a six-figure salary and drive a foreign car.

Value is now measured by two criteria: appearance and performance.

Pretty tough system, isn’t it? Where does that leave the retarded? Or the ugly or uneducated? Where does that place the aged or the handicapped? What hope does that offer the unborn child? Not much. Not much at all. We become nameless numbers on mislaid lists.