The inability to take life serious is, in this case, a consequent of personality and individual difference rather than any sort of metaphysical claims about the nature of meaning. Their responses and interactions throughout life have brought about an impersonal and detached view on the world. Apathetic individuals do not take life seriously, then, because they have given up on life entirely. They have no interest or concern about the world around them, because they have been defeated by it. They have seen the difficulties which life has brought and decided that these challenges can be handled by others.
