Task 7: Counter Example

Counter Example:

            In the culmination of the argument you conclude that it is a necessary component of life to live vicariously.  The conclusion is drawn from a few arguments that illustrate how living vicariously occurs in our lives and how we may benefit from it.  However, this conclusion is not entailed by the argument you’ve presented.  To be a necessary component of life is to be such that a human cannot truly live without having a vicarious experience.

            Let us say that Adam and Eve are the first ever human beings.  They are both humans living a life on earth.  What we know of Adam and Eve are that they were the first to experience anything on this planet.  They partook in the same events and acted identically.  It follows, then, that these two beings were the first to experience anything on earth and that they did so simultaneously but separately.  They had no need to live vicariously through one another.  They both ate a bit of the same forbidden fruit.  Adam did not need to imagine what it would be like to do what Eve did nor did Eve necessitate a vicarious experience to understand what it would have been like to eat the fruit that Adam did.  Since we allow this Biblical tale as an illustrative example we allow that these two existed on earth.  Furthermore, we understand that they indeed lived a life like any other human.   Therefore there is such a human that has existed and that did not live vicariously during their lifetime.