Comment by aprilthird2021

> What would it look like to live as if it were true?

If you believed this to be true, you would overcome your evolutionarily drives and emotions, like we do when we don't procreate and have kids at the age of puberty because we know it will disadvantage us in society. Or like we do when we don't cheat on our spouses to procreate more for the same reason.

We suppress all sorts of evolutionarily better behaviors for the sake of our society.

But no one who believes there is no value or meaning in our lives just wastes away and dies, nor do the ardent supporters of this view just end their lives to prove to us how seriously they take it.

> care about my family and work to make their lives better not because I believe their lives have some objective value, but because their lives have value to _me_,

A value you made up in your head which isn't real and which you have faith in, despite knowing it isn't provable.