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Are you happy to be alive, knowing that untold ancestors lived comparatively short and brutish lives
by bambataa 6y ago
Are you happy to be alive, knowing that untold ancestors lived comparatively short and brutish lives
- aesclepius 6y agoIn the immortal words of the GOP, "Fuck you, got mine."* *But no not necessarily, but at the same time I had a lack of autonomy in regards to those decision made.
- petercooper 6y agoI have sorrow and compassion for all humans who have had a hard life, but I don't feel any obligations either to or from my ancestors. I was questioning your assertion that centuries of "terrible lives" (which, to me, seems a regression for most) would be an acceptable price to pay for "better times" later on. Compared to the past 1000 years where life has, in the main, improved gradually generation after generation, I feel this assertion at least deserves to be questioned.
- lopmotr 6y agoTerrible life is always better than no life because the person living it has the choice to kill themselves. If it lasts 1000s of generations, then obviously they will have chosen life, so it's worth giving it to them.