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I stopped at "what's the fucking point of humanity then?"
.... Are you under the impression that there's a point to living? Some grand plan or purpose that drives people?
The only reason I'm not in the ground already is because when I thought about it, my death would cause suffering to people I cared about, so I'd rather take on that suffering myself than put it on them. If everyone I cared about died, I'd petition for medical euthanasia, if that was denied, I'd go find the nearest bride and swan dive into pavement.
The only reason we exist is to have babies so they can exist and have babies. Human life, indeed all life, lives to procreate, and make more of itself. That's it.
I've always questioned why we're worthy of survival, but all the species we've killed off due to climate change, or hunting them to extinction, or destroying their habitat where they die off because they can't survive in a different habitat, are not worthy of survival.
I'm not convinced that humans should continue to perpetuate themselves long term. Bluntly, I can't point to anything genuinely good that we've done for any creature other than ourselves. We address environmental issues sure, but we caused them. The only thing we go out of our way to do, at all, and with significant disagreement and debate, is fix shit we fucked up. That's it. Everything else has been a selfish pursuit of greed by humans.
What's been happening, has not changed my mind on any of this.
I'm not crazy, and I'm not going to try to exterminate anyone because I don't think humans should continue to exist. I'm still here to bring as much happiness and joy to the people I care about, and I don't have the mental capacity to feel anything but contempt for everyone screwing everything up. I can't spare the effort to hate anyone. It's exhausting.
At this point, I just want everyone to leave me alone so I can live my tiny comfortable life with the people I actually care about, grow old and die.... Hopefully in that order.
Sorry you had to write all that just to get downvoted. But what I meant to convey was that by some cosmic accident a cognitively advanced animal appeared, one that can seek to understand fundamental truths about the universe and its reality.
I just hold that cosmic accident in high regard, and think we have a duty as stewards of things we can understand using skills, talents and properties innate to us as a species. This is part of the reason that I think every human life wasted and not supported to its full potential is a failure of society.
Oh, I agree with much of what you say. I'm just not convinced that we as a society are valuable in any way that justifies our continued propagation.
Most of what I wrote was to qualify what I'm saying so that it's understood. I expect downvotes because I'm basically calling humans as a species, not worthy of existing. Some people who are very ego driven proud homo erectus, can definitely take offense to my statements; so down votes are generally expected.
I suppose that some downvotes would also come from those that believe that humans were created by God, under that pretense, I would be insulting their God by saying we're not worthy of existing. So yeah.
Between those two, I'm unmoved by the fact that some decided to down vote.
Well ours is the only species which can probe and understand why there is something instead of nothing. There may not be any intrinsic value in anything, but the act of discovery is meaningful.
I just want to point out that ours is the only species that we know of that can do those things.
It's pure hubris to think that we're the only ones in billions on billions of stars with potentially more than 10x that many planets in the universe that has sapience sufficient to ask the questions. Statistics says it's extremely unlikely that humans are the only sapient life in the universe.