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Homo sapiens are by far the worst thing to ever happen to the known universe. No other species comes close to the amount of destruction and suffering brought about by humans. Fucking ashamed to call myself human. Extinction would be a moral net positive.
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Anonymous 3d

Hell nah don’t project your self-hatred on the rest of us. Humans have existed alongside every other creature sustainably for a long time before states and colonialism and we could (and are) trying to be more sustainable.

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Anonymous 3d

Were the only species that creates art, makes music, and can cure diseases. That’s pretty incredible if you ask me

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Anonymous 3d

Hey if you don’t like being here you can leave, but I’m good

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Anonymous 3d

With the greater capacity for harm also comes a greater capacity for flourishing. It’s a basic debate in utilitarianism. Is the universe better with trillions of happy clams, who lack advanced consciousness but live contently, or is it better with beings who experience suffering, but have greater capacity to enjoy the positives of life.

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Anonymous 3d

What will you do to solve this problem OP?

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Anonymous 3d

Can I turn you into a flower?

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Anonymous 3d

🫩

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Anonymous 3d

To be fair, we don’t even know if this is true 💀

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Anonymous 3d

Humanity is Earthborn life’s only possible chance to escape global extinction. In 800 million years, the biosphere will collapse due to the expanding sun. Spacefaring humans who transport them elsewhere are the only way for plants and animals to survive that event.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3d

I believe strongly that it is good we exist. We bring a level of conscious complexity to the known universe that could not exist otherwise. The beauty of the universe cannot be appreciated if there are not beings there to experience it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3d

Who said this is self hatred I am a cat and I stole my owners phone

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3d

I would argue we haven’t existed sustainably alongside every other creature. Small-scale hunter gatherer societies drove the megafaunal extinctions of the end Pleistocene. The species that survived then adapted to human presence. But that is the result of any highly competitive species entering a new ecosystem.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3d

Brother, wdym sustainably, look at the global temperatures the last 250 years 😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3d

Utilitarianism in of itself is silly tho bc it reduces a human’s life to pleasure vs. pain

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 3d

This is one of the big objections to utilitarianism. If we eliminated all pain, I don’t think life would be worth living. But think utilitarianism is at least one of the better systems of morality we have developed.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3d

that’s fair, plus I do think utilitarianism, although not a great guiding philosophy, is a good lens for political policymaking

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 3d

And why do we need to survive that event

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 3d

Why does Earth’s life need to escape global extinction?

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 2d

Why does Earth’s life need to escape anthropogenic extinction?

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