The Philosophy of Existence
by Rod Jackson
There are two different types of existing entities.
1) Entities that are not created and
2) Entities that are created.
It should be noted that I am including abstract things like ideas and thoughts etc as entities. They have an existence of dependance. They depend upon a mind to exist, hence they are created by the mind. Therefore they will come under the 2nd option above.
1) Entities that are not created.
An entity that is not created but exists, must be eternal. However such a being that has always existed has never not existed. So this entity could not have earned it's existence as there was never a time it did not exist. Thus such a being does not deserve it's existence (it is unearned), that being, just is.
2) Entities that are created.
But conversely a being that is created does not deserve it's existence either. Before an entity exists it can do nothing, for it does not exist to be able to do anything. Thus it cannot earn it's existence, and thus it's existence is not deserved either.
So the nature of existence is that it is not earned. In fact, it is that it cannot be earned. So the nature of existence is that existence is never deserved.
Now since existence is never deserved, that means nobody deserves to live. Does this mean we can or should go around murdering people, seeing they don't deserve their existence? No, it does not logically follow - that because a being does not deserve something, that that thing should be taken away from them. Little Billy may have been a bad boy all year and at Christmas time his mother may give him a bike. Little Billy did not earn the bike, he did not derseve to get it. However that does not mean someone else has the right to steal the bike from him. Once it is give to Billy, it is Billy's bike.