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Originally Posted by Vinterland Bad relative to the damage other creatures do to earth. It is correct to say that humans do more damage than all other animals on earth combined. "Improvement" (something you should define) is good, but if were are improving at all significantly, which I doubt, then I see no reason why our existence is a good thing. | So those oxygen evolving photosynthesizing plants/organisms were a bad move? | If different chemicals were involved in forming earth it's possible something else "like us" would have formed anyways, without oxygen and their resperation would likewise involve different substance. I acknowledge I can't make a good argument why humans should disapear now (maybe someone else could) because it's all a matter of perspective.
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |