“Should a person ever truly believe this, for what reason would they want to draw another breathe?”
Because nothing really matters but the moment, nothing.
Oh, you can rail & cry over the past and hope for the future, but the only thing that should concern anyone is the now of life, live there be happy.
“Because nothing really matters but the moment, nothing.”
That is the inescapable logical conclusion of a materialistic world view, and it is a very short walk from there to nihilism. Very few people who profess this believe actually live by it, and those that do are mostly in prison, or dead.
No believe is more destructive to the nobility of man. Love and morality are only an illusion from this perspective.
There is a cognitive dissonance on a grand scale at work here. Many people who ascribe to a materialistic world view, with it’s denial of purpose in the universe, and believe that humans are just grown-up germs, are also driven to “save the planet” and “fight social injustice”.
Why?