True or False... Extreme Purpose

[Bitter Creek]

I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live - Martin Luther King Jr

Is this statement true?

 

[purkey]

true

 

[Orange Jennyslipper]

I don't think everyone lives in a historical time frame in which such dedication is required, or even possible. Obviously wartime affords such opportunities, but hopefully wars don't last a lifetime.

I prefer to try to live up to Socrates' admonishment that "The unexamined life is not worth living."

Taking time to consider what we are doing with our lives and why, gives us the opportunity to see our short-comings and, hopefully, try to correct them.

With or without religious prompting, we ought to try to be better people. I don't think Dr. King would disagree.

 

[H Town Poke]

first thing that came to mind was this historic quote from FMJ.

 

[Rdcldad]

I don't think everyone lives in a historical time frame in which such dedication is required, or even possible. Obviously wartime affords such opportunities, but hopefully wars don't last a lifetime.

I prefer to try to live up to Socrates' admonishment that "The unexamined life is not worth living."

Taking time to consider what we are doing with our lives and why, gives us the opportunity to see our short-comings and, hopefully, try to correct them.

With or without religious prompting, we ought to try to be better people. I don't think Dr. King would disagree.

AB
Do you have children?

I do agree animal mother had an outstanding life view...

 

[Orange Jennyslipper]

AB
Do you have children?

I do agree animal mother had an outstanding life view...

...and view of death.

We have three adult (by legal age) children. Two OSU grads and one son-in-law working on it. Two grandsons.

 

[shortbus]

I disagree. I have found plenty of things that I'm willing to die for.

Bacon, albeit very slowly, is one of them.

That said, I don't think not having found that thing or things makes life unfit for living nor does it make one unfit to live.

Maybe that one thing worth dying for is living to find that one thing, in which case upon finding would make life no longer worth living?

 

[Alpha Poke]

For people like King, yes.

For the workaday drone, no.

 

[Deepfork]

I am willing to die for something and may be willing to die for something that I won't know until the time comes to take the risk.

 

[Orange Jennyslipper]

I am willing to die for something and may be willing to die for something that I won't know until the time comes to take the risk.

I agree, and think that's very, very well stated, @Deepfork.