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> Personally, who cares? I think I and probably most of humanity if given a choice between the survival of the human species and the birth of some philosophical
by the_af 4y ago
> Personally, who cares? I think I and probably most of humanity if given a choice between the survival of the human species and the birth of some philosophical new species
Well, whoever claims to care about doing "good" to Earth's ecosystem (as opposed to admitting it's only about mankind's survival) must necessarily care about this kind of arguments.
It's not a "philosophical new species", I can point to one species you really care about and which owes its existence to a mass extinction event (or maybe more than one): yours.
- wonderwonder 4y agoRight, but humans are here now. We are not going to willingly endure a mass extinction event for another species to thrive in our place.
- the_af 4y agoI don't disagree. I'm all for our species surviving. But let's not delude ourselves, like the initial comment did, that we are doing this for the good of the planet. It's for us. This is valid, sure. But it's not the good of the ecosystem or any such thing.