"If a man doesn't have something that he's willing to die for then he isn't fit to live"?

Question

"If a man doesn't have something that he's willing to die for then he isn't fit to live"?

Answer 1

Yes.



To me, the ultimate measure of a man is the amount he is willing to sacrifice for something greater than himself.



True men are passionate enough to die for something.

Answer 2

It's basic meaning

that if you don't have something you passionately believe in to the point your willing to die for...whats the point of living. Yes yes I do.



But ya know I'm military and bias.

Answer 3

It's a convoluted quote mixing different ideas.



Some things might be worth sacrificing your life for, but it's not as if people are born with the proviso that they have to die for something or forfeit their lives.



At this moment I have nothing I'm willing to sacrifice my life for, but I insist upon my fitness to stay alive. Contributing to the world is equally worthy and doesn't need to be supported by a never-carried-out, mystical pledge for the sake of noble self-feeling.

Answer 4

That is an awesome quote...I personally have to agree with it. I for one would die for our country and my children, and the brave men and women who work beside me to keep the public safe from harm...no questions asked.

Answer 5

Actually, yes I do.

Answer 6

Yes, but the "... isn't fit to live" part is a bridge too far.

Answer 7

No, because just because someon hasn't found something yet doesn't mean he shouldn't be alive. The whole point of living is it's a journey of discovery, we are meant to learn as much as possible so the statement would defeat that purpose.

Answer 8

Yes, the man should live. No matter what, deep down in side he has something to live for. Even if he can't realize it, at the moment, someone out there will miss him dearly.

Answer 9

I believe in it. U should have passions or people in this world you're willing to sacrifice for orthen living is pointless. Same goes for women.

Answer 10

If you were to say man OR woman, than yes, I do actually. Well, maybe not "fit to live," that reeks of justification for killing a person. But if a person doesn't have love or conviction or passion, then it seems an awfully hollow life--as if he or she is wasting the beauty and powerfulness of life. If one fears death, then he or she fears to live, in my opinion. And if one fears conviction/love/passion than he or she fears life as well. Plus one should always be willing to sacrifice him/herself for something bigger than him/herself. Ones country or family or lover. If one thinks of him/herself as so great that nothing is worthy of death, then they don't have a very positive outlook on life.

Answer 11

I don't agree that by havin a will to die can one be judged to live or not.

But, i agree that the person is a cowardice when in a situation of either sacrificing or when others are there ..willing to die without any complains but wif pride. But..i am sure that many in this world are of strong character and noe when the time comes what they are to do..including me.

Answer 12

I don't believe that in the slightest way...



But I'm shallow and non-committal



Edit:

Sarcasm in this forum is like a blatant lie. So the long version to my answer is going to have to negate the shallow/non-committal statement.



That statement makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. It has negatively charged undertones that support the idea that a person has some moral obligation to determine the value of another person based on a perception that may or may not be valid. The flavor is judgmental.



I could imagine that this quote is very popular in countries where suicide bombers are made.



Intrinsically, the statement could be used to support suicide as well. "I have no passion [right now]. I'm unworthy to live." Again, wrong. There are moments where turning off passion is a survival tool. This statement at the wrong time could lead to permanent bad decisions.



I would guess that we all have something we would be willing to die for, but having never been put in a situation that requires it, we haven't yet learned what it is. That statement, in regards to the previous, establishes a sense of false moral superiority.



But I will give the statement this much: As a motivator for military action, that statement absolves and forgives what "has to be done" at the moment it is needed.



Bottom line, it would not be a 'motto to live by' for me.

Answer 13

It's a quote only a fool can live by.



Any moron can die for a cause. It takes true courage to live for your cause, to do the necessary instead of the symbolic like some wannabe hero.

Answer 14

I don't agree with it. I might agree with it if it were less sexist and awful. In other words, yes, I agree that it's healthy to have something in your life that you are truly passionate about. But there is also something to be said about obsession, rather than passion. And anyway, passing life-or-death judgement upon others on account of their perceived motives in life is something that, I hope, we left behind in the mass-decapitations of the French Revolution, and the sundry atrocities of the Nazis.

Answer 15

Perhaps the people who disagree with that would die for the right not die for something.

Answer 16

If you are not willing to die for something, you're not really alive.

It's SO true.

Answer 17

Well, not literally, no. Figuratively, yes. I think though, what this quote might be trying to say is that our lives feel more satisfying when we perceive that we have some kind of meaningful purpose, whatever that purpose might be.



The "isn't fit to live" part, if taken literally, is what I would disagree with.

Answer 18

He may not deserve to live, however others are mercifull and want him to live. Do you want to receive what you deserve? That would be just. Or-do you prefer mercy, that comes of love and compasion by knowledge of human weakness? Which is more enlightened the Justice or the mercy?

Answer 19

I guess the interpratation is something or someone...i would die for my husband or son.



Not necessarily tho, you can have passionate beliefs but that doesn't mean you would give up your life for them.

Answer 20

No, if he's an evil, antisocial, narcissistic, sociopathic, psychopath that does nothing but cause misery and grief to innocent people then he's not fit to live.

Answer 21

Yes.