Posted on 12/17/2018 5:55:34 AM PST by C19fan
There are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human extinction. This should not be surprising, given the increasingly threatening predations of climate change. In reflecting on this question, I want to suggest an answer to a single question, one that hardly covers the whole philosophical territory but is an important aspect of it. Would human extinction be a tragedy?
To get a bead on this question, let me distinguish it from a couple of other related questions. I’m not asking whether the experience of humans coming to an end would be a bad thing. (In these pages, Samuel Scheffler has given us an important reason to think that it would be.) I am also not asking whether human beings as a species deserve to die out. That is an important question, but would involve different considerations. Those questions, and others like them, need to be addressed if we are to come to a full moral assessment of the prospect of our demise. Yet what I am asking here is simply whether it would be a tragedy if the planet no longer contained human beings. And the answer I am going to give might seem puzzling at first. I want to suggest, at least tentatively, both that it would be a tragedy and that it might just be a good thing.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Would the extinction of elite liberals be a tragedy?
We need to understand that our elite seek our mass extermination for their own pleasure.
They want a huge recession in 2020
They delight when families homes burn in California.
It leaves more for them.
Actually very clever, if extinction it happens it will most likely be caused by human action (sorry space rocks) in which case it could have been prevented.
The question then:
Why are we allowing our species to be put in such peril?
A tragedy, yes, in the original sense of the word perhaps. But there will be no one left to deem it so, or mourn the fact.
If we got rid of the NYTimes first it wouldn’t seem so bad.
It would not be a tragedy because there would be no
one left to feel tragic about it.
Fake News bastards at NYT can start by extinguishing themselves.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
All of this error and insanity stems from unbelief; they are stuck in sin, and their foolish hearts are darkened.
NYT takes themselves WAY TOO SERIOUSLY.
If all human life were extinguished at once who would take over as the dominant life force on earth? I’d say vegetation. Is there an animal who could take over in our stead? They say the dolphins are extremely intelligent but they would have mobility issues in trying to run New York.
The drive by’s are doing their best to get this done... Everything points to this as the final goal.
The replies at NYT are priceless. Liberals really lack all logic and reasoning skills.
I’ve noticed for a while that Liberals have been fantasizing about human extinction. This is but one example:
http://worldwithoutus.com/index2.html
Humanity, by God’s design, is a resilient bunch. WW2 took out 50 million and we just kept on going. To make us all go extinct will take an act of God.
If a tragedy befell in a forest, and no one is around to experience it, would it be lamentable?
Precisely.
Since your energy/carbon footprint is largely correlated with the amount of money you earn and spend every year ... the easy answer is to nuke the 50 wealthiest largest cities in the world.
New York, Chicago, LA, Paris, Singapore etc... etc. etc... we’d get an extra thousand years AND the folks at the New York Times would be gone.
It’s a twofer...
Liberals fantasize about the end of humanity because it will include the end of Trump and their own mothers, whom most bitter hardcore leftists hate.
“Liberals have been fantasizing about human extinction.”
Universal phenomenon — Dooms Dayers, End of the World Enthusiasts and Rapture Waiters are cut from the same clothe. Only the pattern is different.
Me? I loved to learn the bomb a long time ago, and it even ain’t around nowadays.
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