A better way to put it is that there is no extrinsic purpose. However, you can decide for yourself what your ultimate purpose is.
Why not? Because you can define an ultimate purpose for your own life and find justice within human society.
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Thatâs a fair description. I am only giving my own view as a None, and I certainly donât expect it to be universal.
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You canât make anyone do that, so âwhy notâ still stands.
Extrinsic or intrinsic, âI donât see a purpose and I have a thousand rounds.â
Nothing is stopping someone from defining an ultimate purpose for their lives outside of formalized religions. On top of that, normally functioning humans have empathy for their fellow human beings which usually prevents us from harming one another needlessly.
Given how this isnât happening on a regular basis points to the fact that people do find purpose in their lives.
Nothing is forcing them to, either.
How old are you and where are you? Itâs happening on a way more regular basis than it used to, at least in the U.S.!
Nones make up about 25% of the US population, so about 75 million people. How many of those people are involved in mass shootings? If not having an extrinsic ultimate purpose defined by a formalized religion leads to gunning people down, then why isnât it happening a lot more than it is?
Hop in your time machine and visit the Roman Colosseum, ca. 100 AD, or maybe early Scotland or Ireland when Vikings were around. How about Ruanda or the Congo, or Papua New Guinea, more recently, or Myanmar.
If you werenât a christian and were an atheist, would you start shooting people randomly?
Because we havenât gone as far as we will have from the principles of the Founding Fathers â not all Christians, but certainly many were. âOur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.â - John Adams
I might if I were a bullied ninth grader.
Speaking of non sequiturs, that is one. Iâm sure most Vikings or Celtic warriors didnât question their ânormalityâ.
There are a lot of atheists and Nones in other countries, and no rampant mass shootings.
Thatâs a bit scary.
The folks they invaded and pillaged probably did.
This whole conversation is completely meaningless. 
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This,
diverts and does not answer this:
Yeah, school is scarier than it used to be.
Given the chance, they would have returned the favor.
The answer is that it doesnât happen regularly. Take a look at how many people there are and how many mass shootings occur.