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Quote by: pam699  Considering geological time Does it really matter what humans do
does it matter if human f..k the enviroment since in a billion year time the contients and world climate will be different any way
does it matter if human cause the extinction of animal since in a billion years time they would not be here any way
does it really mater what humans dio when in a billion years time humanity will just be a smug in the geological strata above which wil be new life forms urinating and excreating above us
does it really mater what humans do when sometime in the future the sun will incinerate every planet in the solar system
so what does it matter what we do when in geological time it will all be eradicated anyway and hve no grerat effect upon anything in a billion years time
so why not just get on with getin on and f..k up things all we can |
I usually find your threads pointless, but I actually think about this topic quite a lot.
In some movie.. a murderer was trying to justify his killing with the fact that we are just a blink of an eye to the universe.
The thing is, many of us care about securing the future for our children and their children. Some, like me, dream of mankind transcending into the stars and facing even more challenges for as long as mankind can. It's within most of us, the desire to survive.
But, logically, there is no reason. There is no other purpose to this than that we are helplessly bound to our survival urges. It wouldn't matter to the universe in any significant way whether we screwed up the earth or if we all died out. The thing is, the universe isn't making that decision; we are. And we are programmed to think otherwise.. because not only do we not want to die ourselves, many of us do not want mankind to die either.