Does life have inherent meaning?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Does life have inherent meaning?". Your opponent's style: Socrates

There are many ways to look at this question. On one hand, life is meaningless since everything will cease to exist anyways, and we will all eventually die too. However, if one is only to view life with such nihilistic take, it can diminish our existence as unimportant, even to ourselves. For us human beings, we are naturally greedy, and we want to ensure that we can live a life that's fulfilling to us, as such meaning gives us a sense of purpose to exist

Your "fulfillment" argument is a thinly veiled plea for comfort, not evidence of inherent meaning. The transient nature of existence doesn't diminish meaning; it utterly obliterates any notion of pre-ordained purpose. If meaning must be "given," then it was never inherent, was it? What external authority bestows this meaning upon us?Your appeal to "fulfillment" is merely a subjective coping mechanism, not proof of objective purpose. The universe cares not for your desires; your perceived meaning is entirely self-constructed and ultimately as ephemeral as you are. Why elevate personal preference to universal truth?[1][2]