Albert Camus was born Into a poor working class family His father who was barely literate Worked as an agricultural labourer in a vineyard He was killed at the first Battle of the Marne Camus always felt the absurdity of his pointless death I personally would refuse to fight if my country was at war Not that I am a coward far from it but because of the absurd nature of war This is how it goes one is lets say in a foreign field Charging towards an enemy trench when a sniper kills you The said sniper has no quarrel with you But he has still blown your brains out Or if in reverse you kill an enemy soldier You surprise him and use your bayonet and he dies at your feet In another life you might have met him whilst travelling abroad A friendship might have been formed That is the absurdity of war Camus once said A death in a car crash is absurd because a car crash is objectively meaningless He died in car accident in 1960 I wonder if he appreciated the irony of his death When I was nineteen I was involved in a serious car crash The driver was very seriously injured and never worked again Not only did I survive the accident but I was totally uninjured People at the time said that it was God's will Whereas others said that this is the same God Who in time would watch us all die We are all on Death Row having committed no crime I find this really absurd But for some reason do not question it I will not fly as I do not feel in control That is as absurd as feeling comfortable On high speed trains or on ships at sea Joe