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Yes, let's die out! Let's not even let any kid get born that may invent the key to nuclear fusion. Sure, let's just choose some non-sentient animals and plants
by teekert 8y ago
Yes, let's die out! Let's not even let any kid get born that may invent the key to nuclear fusion. Sure, let's just choose some non-sentient animals and plants over ourselves killing any chance of betterment right here and now. Let's not even try to spread out over the stars, let's make sure that any life on our current planet dies as soon as this planet dies instead of taking it with us across the barren ocean that is the milky way.
If we take this seriously we don't even deserve to exist as a species.
You die out Alexandria, let your bloodline end. I for one want to my genome to explore the galaxy, to have it help preserve earth in the future. To boldly go where no (wo)man has gone before! And if you only point at my right to procreate I will defend it with everything I have!
How cynical do you have to be to only see humans as sources of CO2? And to completely neglect their potential. Honestly, if this piece is for real (and I'm not lacking any context) then I think this woman is dangerous.
- your-nanny 8y agoI seriously wrestled with whether having kids was moral. Indeed, it seems highly probable that they will just grow up to witness and suffer in the next great extinction event.
- teekert 8y agoSeriously? Do you know what the earth has seen? How climate has been in the past? What we have survived? We are here because we are the culmination of an unbroken line of winners. But it seems your line is about to end because you seem to see it so much better than all your predecessors. This truly is the end time, wat a coincidence you will live to see it.
- seba_dos1 8y agoThere already were plenty of "unbroken lines of winners" that eventually got broken.
- RealityVoid 8y agoI echo your sentiment. And I am mostly of the same opinion of you. It's just... if you look on a long enough timeline, there is no way that the humanity will not end in a dramatic and sad way. Preferably very very far in the future, but not necessarily.
- teekert 8y agoYou mean your great ... great grand kids will die in-silico while black hole farming the last black holes about 10^53 years after the last stars die out? ;) [0] Would we still call that humanity? [0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
- your-nanny 8y agoYour reply could be more civil. Many scientists warn that we are probably in one of the great extinction events. It's happened before, and past success is no guarantee of future success. I might add that our ancestors didn't have an abundance of nukes either. I know a lot of what the Earth has seen. Huge glaciers, global hypoxia, mass extinctions, cataclysmic events... your response ignores fact that there never has been 4.5 billion Homo sapiens sapiens living all at once before. What a coincidence that I should be here to see it!
- archagon 8y agoYou have no ownership over your descendants. Nothing about you as an individual will be exploring those galaxies. In the end, it's all an arbitrary sort of stew.
- teekert 8y agoIt will be a stew with my optimistic DNA in it and none of those anti-procreation basepairs!