I don't consider that a mu at all: to me you've provided a good deal of information about how you feel about motivation! For example, we could go on and talk about the utility monster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster), or the mere addition paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox), or what your feelings were on the origin of "value", on spending a life in drug-induced ecstasy, etc.

I guess I see where you're coming from if you're saying that the "meaning of life" is more of an essay question than a mutliple choice or short answer one, :). But there are a lot of questions like that. Most famously "The Irish Question". I have no idea what that was, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the kind of question which had a one line answer, :).

I don't have the book here to check chapter and verse, but I'm pretty sure 1066 and All That mentioned one king trying to answer the Irish Question by pulling the beards of the ancient Irish chiefs, which the book said "was a Bad Thing, and the wrong answer". :-)