Because so many have been longing for an answer. The answer is actually very simple, to preserve our species and nothing more. Period.
We ourselves have, over all those years, raised the bar to high. We have to many expectations..! Happiness as well as sadness are just distractions from the true face of life. And when you can’t reproduce you’re evolutionary subordinate and inferior.
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Life occurred and existed prior to our species. Our species became alive before there was anything to preserve.
Preservation of the species is the result of life, not the purpose. There is no requirement to preserve or perpetuate the species. It doesn’t matter if humanity becomes extinct at any given moment.
But i will admit that there is a sort of “undertone” or underlying instinctual mechanism which keeps reproduction, physical prowess, and prosperity, very closely linked and interrelated.
Jesus, Ghandi, King, Mandela would allow for other meanings.