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That’s the most suicidal perspective I’ve ever heard. If we sit on our hands and do nothing then life on earth is doomed to extinction and we will be directly
by throwaway316943 5y ago
That’s the most suicidal perspective I’ve ever heard.
If we sit on our hands and do nothing then life on earth is doomed to extinction and we will be directly responsible. Our duty as rational beings is to preserve and spread life. If you really want to be anti suffering then figure out a way to improve things so nothing needs to suffer. We’re already on a trajectory for doing that for humans so there’s no reason to think we couldn’t do it for all life.
Even if the odds are slim it’s cowardly to not even try.
- medstrom 5y agoYou know, I agree fully on trying and not being a coward. I wonder why it sounds otherwise to you. I just think there's no need to spread life beyond those of us who are here right now. It's worth keeping currently living individuals alive and happy as long as they want to live, because it's a great ill when something with a desire to keep living has their life forcibly taken away, but I don't see the intrinsic good in breeding.