From proconsul heseloni to homo sapiens, as a species, we have brought about nothing but destruction and catastrophe on this planet. From torturing animals on a daily basis in slaughterhouses for our luxurious meals to making entire species go extinct to waging wars and killing fellow species to slavery, we have done nothing good. Say a circumstance were to come bestowing upon you the final choice, the decision that ends us all, the choice to let humankind as a whole perish (painlessly and instantaneously), should you choose to let it happen? — TheSoundConspirator
And why would that be? — TheSoundConspirator
Evolutionary processes (e.g. chrysalis) are prodigeously wasteful – entropic. We're either fit enough to survive 'becoming an extraterrestrial species' or soon enough we'll take our (overdue) place in the terrestrial fossil record. Every skeleton on the higher slopes of Mount Everest must have once belonged to a highly-ambitious specimen.... as a species, we have brought about nothing but destruction and catastrophe on this planet. — TheSoundConspirator
From proconsul heseloni to homo sapiens, as a species, we have brought about nothing but destruction and catastrophe on this planet. From torturing animals on a daily basis in slaughterhouses for our luxurious meals to making entire species go extinct to waging wars and killing fellow species to slavery, we have done nothing good. Say a circumstance were to come bestowing upon you the final choice, the decision that ends us all, the choice to let humankind as a whole perish (painlessly and instantaneously), should you choose to let it happen? — TheSoundConspirator
No. I don't subscribe to a dictatorship.Say a circumstance were to come bestowing upon you the final choice, the decision that ends us all, the choice to let humankind as a whole perish (painlessly and instantaneously), should you choose to let it happen? — TheSoundConspirator
Does not matter one way or the other. — Jackson
Our destructiveness cannot justify our destroying ourselves. We have brought destruction and catastrophe, but also this:-we have brought about nothing but destruction and catastrophe on this planet. — TheSoundConspirator
The human experiment has indeed failed evidenced by the multiple catastrophes that have been brought about in our wake. — TheSoundConspirator
but as human beings, the species that coined the term "humane", shouldn't we attempt to do justice to it? — TheSoundConspirator
↪Philosophim Firstly, the "we are doing fine" is a statement that doesn't even wholly pertain to the current state of human beings, let alone animals. — TheSoundConspirator
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