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Honestly, as long as humans stay stuck to earth, losing all humanity on earth won't hurt anyone. As long as the extinction is instant. If we have colonies, thos
by rocqua 10y ago
Honestly, as long as humans stay stuck to earth, losing all humanity on earth won't hurt anyone. As long as the extinction is instant.
If we have colonies, those colonies need to suffer through the knowledge that we lost earth.
Establishing colonies is only imperative if the continuation of the human race is. I'd argue that humans have value only due to other humans. There is nothing inherently valuable about human life from a non-human perspective.
That is not to say I don't support space colonization, just that I don't think its a moral imperative.
- jacobush 10y ago"There is nothing inherently valuable about human life from a non-human perspective." How would you know?
- nkrisc 10y agoIt's a perfectly reasonable assumption until there's some evidence there is. Given the vastness and scale of the universe, it seems quite likely that our disappearance would never be noticed.
- jacobush 10y agoGoing unnoticed is not the same as inherently not valuable. Imagine aliens finding us extinct, wringing their little tentacles in dispair at the lost probing opportunities. :)