Why do philosophers have to justify everything?

Seems a bit futile to me when there always has to be a logical reason for doing something.

Seems a bit futile to me when there always has to be a logical reason for doing something.

*******s. Many people do things for no reason at all.

No they don't. Even if you are responding to a random urge you are making the logical choice to try and satisfy that urge so you don't have to deal with it any longer.

Not true.

We act on whim, impulse, and logic. Most human actions are based on whim and impulse.

And it is often logical to satisfy whim and impulse, because unsatisfied whims are unpleasant.

I disagree. Since whim means acting on impulse without conscious thinking.

Humans are not consistently conscious.

Some of us put more thought into things than others, perhaps.

Because justification is important. Before you perform an action, you justify it, right?

I'm going to eat something. Why? Because I'm hungry. Justification.

Philosophy generally looks at more important issues than a rumbling tummy though.

Seems a bit futile to me when there always has to be a logical reason for doing something.

lol... Not really. Not at all, in fact.

I would say that we most often do things "just because" or "for the hell of it". It's how we are geared, and is our nature.

Not everything we do has a strict reason.

I disagree. "For the hell of it" is still a reason for doing something, albeit a not very concrete one.

"Just because" is a vague scapegoat for when you don't want to tell people the real reason, or you simply haven't figured it out yet.

"Just because" is exactly as stated.

Why do you presume that humans are so logical?