Human extinction -

[autisticdragonkin]

I have heard many people here saying that humans are going to go extinct in the next few centuries. I see no reason why to think that this will occur and I think that such fatalism is unproductive and may very well create a self fulfilling prophecy if a large portion of the population starts to believe it. Some people will question whether humanity deserves to live or not and my response is that they should think about how cruel it is to starve a small child, multiply that by over a billion and you get human extinction, as well as questioning whether there even needs to be a justification for human survival in the first place as justification is a human concept that may not apply to the existence of humanity itself

 

[Joan Nyan]

they should think about how cruel it is to starve a small child

I thought you didn't have empathy.

 

[Online Violence]

Neo-malthusian nihilists are contained entirely in western first world countries. Don't worry, humanity will endure, just not the regressive portion of it glorifying Darwin Awards as a moral imperative.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_extinction
Check out a few of the links on this article.

Not even counting all of the numerous hypotheticals such as Nuclear annihilation and planetary impact, Global Warming and the Holocene Extinction will wipe us out in the next 200-300 years. It's pessimistic and depressing to think, but we're living on the precipice of pretty much all life on Earth.

But, instead of being all mopey about it, imo we should be happy. We have the honor of being the very last of what our species has to offer. We have the privilege of being able to look back on all of humanity's achievements and failures, in a way, we're almost able to get a complete retrospective on our species as a whole.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I thought you didn't have empathy.

I am quite empathetic I just use other justifications alongside empathy, in this case arguing that there is not a need for a justification. Empathy is overrated by normal people but underrated by philosophers

But, instead of being all mopey about it, imo we should be happy. We have the honor of being the very last of what our species has to offer. We have the privilege of being able to look back on all of humanity's achievements and failures, in a way, we're almost able to get a complete retrospective on our species as a whole.

This is exactly the type of nihilism that will create the self fulfilling prophecy. Just sitting around in a happy haze will be the end of us, instead we need to fight to the last man against those threats, we cannot let ourselves go gentle into the good night

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

This is exactly the type of nihilism that will create the self fulfilling prophecy. Just sitting around in a happy haze will be the end of us, instead we need to fight to the last man against those threats, we cannot let ourselves go gentle into the good night

While I agree that we should try to prevent human extinction, I think that overpopulation, general inactivity and unwillingness to prevent said issues complicates things.

Either way, the extreme changes we'd have to make to prevent global warming at this point just aren't doable. By the time we successfully transition to alternative fuels, our time would be up, so to speak.

 

[Ebola]

Humans will not exist at all in a thousand years, but that doesn't mean we're all gonna be dead; one likely outcome is converting all matter we encounter into small computers and uploading our minds into them. Even if everyone died right now, there'd still be an infinite number of parallel Earths where everyone's fine, so it's pointless to worry about. The only problem we have now is making it to the technological singularity without setting ourselves backwards hundreds of thousands of years by starting WW3 or not being able to stop a pandemic.

 

[Online Violence]

Again, don't worry, this sort of apathetic, narcissistic nihilism is very restricted. Thousands of generations of human ancestors doing their best to pass on their line is a deeply imbedded instinct that is replicated in most of their descendents. Those who promote this bleak view of the future tend to be or turn themselves into genetic dead ends in any case, so it's a self-correcting problem.

 

[Tranquil Beetle]

While I agree that we should try to prevent human extinction, I think that overpopulation, general inactivity and unwillingness to prevent said issues complicates things.

Either way, the extreme changes we'd have to make to prevent global warming at this point just aren't doable. By the time we successfully transition to alternative fuels, our time would be up, so to speak.

It took about 10,000 years of continuous shit luck to finally put our neanderthal cousins down; humans are remarkably resilient and adaptable.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

It took about 10,000 years of continuous shit luck to finally put our neanderthal cousins down; humans are remarkably resilient and adaptable.

You can't really adapt to literally smothering heat tbh. However, I do see what you're saying and it is a valid point.

 

[Ebola]

Naysayers should be genocided.

 

[Joan Nyan]

I am quite empathetic I just use other justifications alongside empathy, in this case arguing that there is not a need for a justification. Empathy is overrated by normal people but underrated by philosophers

Sorry I keep forgetting that your autism was cured.

You can't really adapt to literally smothering heat tbh. However, I do see what you're saying and it is a valid point.

Even if climate science wasn't all a hoax, temperatures raising a couple degrees in 100 years isn't "literally smothering heat" tbh fam.

 

[Ebola]

Jeez, don't deny climate change; it will be responsible for plenty of new shitskin-killing pandemics and disasters.
IMO it would be really hard to kill every human on Earth unless a gamma-ray burst hit the planet.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

Even if climate science wasn't all a hoax, temperatures raising a couple degrees in 100 years isn't "literally smothering heat" tbh fam.

tbh fam it sort of is when you factor in heating oceans releasing C2o into the atmosphere at alarming rates.

I'm just paraphrasing Stephen hawking tho, that guys a massive cuckold tbh.

 

[Ebola]

I think what autsiticdragonkin is saying about beliefs of people changing things is true, morose than any fedora atheist would ever admit. For example, let's say some retard says pants are a cause of cancer. It may seem stupid at first, but there will totally be at least a small group of nutcases that will believe it. Not all of these people will be dumb; there are plenty of geniuses who are insane, and these people will do all the heavy pushing. Eventually, this small group will start spreading its message through means like the internet and various forms of media and it will begin to grow. Groups of people will begin to get concerned, and there will be studies done, and I am sure at least some of them will have results that can be twisted and manipulated into supporting that pants cause cancer. With enough pushing, at some point, some people will be so paranoid about it all, that pants literally will begin causing cancer, enhancing the correlation, and creating a self-fulfilling feedback loop, resulting in a world where pretty much everyone believes pants cause cancer, because at that point they will. In a nutshell, this is memetic magic in action.

 

[DatBepisTho]

Jeez, don't deny climate change; it will be responsible for plenty of new shitskin-killing pandemics and disasters.
IMO it would be really hard to kill every human on Earth unless a gamma-ray burst hit the planet.

If the rapidly-declining conditions of our ecosystems causing natural disasters and disease doesn't get us, I'm betting on the much-feared scenario of Cold War America:
Enemy nukes and mutually assured destruction.

(Then again I'm a Fallout and Alas Babylon sperg so yeah, ofcourse that'd be how I imagine everything ending in a series of radioactive flashes.)

 

[KingGeedorah]

A giant fucking meteor will blast our asses back to an ice age.

 

[Pikimon]

We probably won't go extinct. We're like cockroaches and dandelions.

edit: fuk u fallensaint u slut

 

[NumberingYourState]

Viruses are getting more and more advanced. So... That's quintessential food for thought.

 

[AnOminous]

Viruses are getting more and more advanced. So... That's quintessential food for thought.

Pretty unlikely, though. We have enough random garbage DNA and variation, including DNA we horked from previous viruses, that it's pretty likely some group of people somewhere will be immune to it because whatever DNA it hooks onto is broken in them somehow.

Unless it's specifically designed to finish us, I suppose.