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OK, how about this: why should the human race persist? What makes humans so superior to other forms of life?

• polishdude20 4y ago
  Not saying it needs to but hey, if other forms of life are procreating by default, I think humans are allowed to make that simple choice as well.
• skissane 4y ago
  Whether or not it should, it will. You might not believe that you are under any duty to reproduce, but there are many religious ultra-conservatives in this world who believe that they have a sacred duty to do so. Given the very high birth rates of many such religious groups (the Amish, Hasidic/Haredi Jews, Quiverfull Evangelicals, Traditionalist Catholics, Salafist Muslims, etc) – and that many of them do an excellent job of retaining their children in the faith (some of these groups continue to sustain >90% retention rates even after multiple generations) – humanity isn't going anywhere. But the more that secular (and religiously moderate/liberal) people choose not to have kids, to have fewer kids, to start families at a later age – the more they are helping to create a future in which people like them are going to be outnumbered by religious ultra-conservatives, and are likely to have no choice but to make compromises with that ever-growing population which they'd rather not have to make. Unlikely you or I will live to see it–but it might be only a century or two away.