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> 3) Destroying humanity is unethical by any non-broken value system. Nah. Given the ridiculous amount of damage humanity is doing to its environment and other
by scbrg 4y ago
> 3) Destroying humanity is unethical by any non-broken value system.
Nah. Given the ridiculous amount of damage humanity is doing to its environment and other lifeforms there's a good case to be made for destroying it for the greater good.
- dragonwriter 4y agoWhose greater good?
- scbrg 4y agoThe rest of the lifeforms. Those here on earth and those we might encounter if we manage to leave the solar system - unlikely as that may be. I'm not saying that humanity necessarily should be destroyed, I'm just saying that the statement "Destroying humanity is unethical by any non-broken value system" is simplistic. If you put any value at all on non human life, it eventually becomes a numbers game. One which I'm not certain "humanity" is necessarily winning.
- tejohnso 4y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted after offering a reasonable point. I'd go even further and say that not destroying humanity would be unethical by any non human centric value system. There is little debate that we are in the midst of a mass extinction and that it is human caused. Perhaps it might be more ethical to destroy human civilization rather than humanity itself. But I think there's a good case to be made either way.
- philwelch 4y agoYou first.