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To: grusum who wrote (8151)	2/4/2012 9:42:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

the fact that people work for things that aren't necessary for survival, doesn't mean that the fundamental purpose of labor isn't to survive. To the extent there is any purpose, its to get what you want. For most people, that includes things necessary to your survival, most people want to live, but that isn't the limit of the purpose, if we had an absolutely perfect, metaphysically certain, guarantee survival without needing any labor, labor would still have purpose. what you want is the usefulness of the hammer, isn't it? ?? Could you rephrase, I don't understand what your getting at. right, you don't want a pen until you need to use it No you don't want it until you want to use it. Its a stretch to call many uses of a pen, or most other tools "needs". If you don't want to use it, it isn't useful. When you do want it then it is useful. Something is useful to you because of your desire to use it or your desire for that which it produces, causes, or is useful for (someone utterly ignorant of chemistry and the physical elements doesn't directly desire oxygen, even though they do want air, but they want to live and oxygen is useful in meeting that desire).