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human
CMV: "You create your own meaning" is not a valid response to "Everything you do is meaningless"

The insignificance of everything we do really cannot be understated. Even if you're the most important person on the planet, there will exist people more skilled and more hard working than you, who would easily fill your shoes if you weren't there. If the human species goes extinct, there are lots of other planets with suitable conditions for life, and those under the right circumstances are probably teeming with evolving organisms. Plausibly, there exist an infinite number of other universes with different fundamental constants, laws and other variables that result in radically different universes to ours. There is nothing inherently special about anything, it is all a product of randomness and stochasticity.  


So after being presented with the view that everything you do is meaningless and that no matter how significant, important or meaningful you think that something is, it isn't - people usually respond with "You create your own meaning". Which doesn't make sense to me. It's like telling someone that imaginary friends cannot exist in reality, and them replying that you create your own imaginary friends. It's obvious that we create them, but our mind's creations and the truth can be shown to be incongruous.   


For the record, I have nothing against people with imaginary friends or people who choose to create their own meaning, I do as well. I just accept that I'm a hypocrite. And to be frank, nihilism often serves as a coping mechanism when things don't go the way I desire.
gpt
Consider what it means for something to be "meaningful." To be meaningful is, by its very nature, a subjective thing because nothing matters unless it matters *to* somebody. To say that something is meaningful is to say that it means something to somebody. So it's perfectly appropriate to respond to the claim that everything is meaningless by pointing out that you create your own meaning. If something is meaningful *to you*, then it's not meaningless.

If you're talking about something being meaningful apart it meaning anything to anybody, then you're talking incoherently.