Life is meaningless?

[Bullitt]

for people to believe life is 'a meaningless existential hell' is pretty extreme though. It comes across to me as suggesting there's no meaning in anything and that life is hell.

I think we should keep in mind that this seems a canned response, a survey answer choice. The students weren't saying that life is a meaningless existential hell, they were just >50% in agreement with the statement presented to them by the testers.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

I think we should keep in mind that this seems a canned response, a survey answer choice. The students weren't saying that life is a meaningless existential hell, they were just >50% in agreement with the statement presented to them by the testers.

That could very well be true. As I acknowledged, the source is definitely far from reliable.

Maybe I should worry about more important things than melodramatic college students.

[Hagar]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

I think we should keep in mind that this seems a canned response, a survey answer choice. The students weren't saying that life is a meaningless existential hell, they were just >50% in agreement with the statement presented to them by the testers.

I think that this is right. If I'd been presented with this survey option as a student, I'd have picked it for fun and then chuckled at myself all day for being soooo clever.

Depending on the survey target group, I doubt that 27% of students would have even known what "existentialism" was.