My Five Wills/Code of Ethics

[bennyboy]

Of course most species are now extinct. That's because they failed.

It's true that there will eventually be no organisms that we'd recognize as human. But it's not necessarily because we die out. We may simply survive long enough, and encounter enough new environments, that we evolve out of it.

You don't seem to understand very much about evolution. There will come a day, however you define that day, when there won't be a single homo sapiens left on this earth. "Evolving out of it" is still "dying out," in the view of homo sapiens, which won't exist anymore. It won't be "us." Forms will have mutated sufficiently for their classification to fall outside of "homo sapiens," and those remaining who are will eventually die. Maybe not the first time, maybe not the second, but, eventually, natural selection will favor the new forms over us. Those new forms will be a new species, and it will have its own concerns. I don't much care about what those are.

You've managed to be both insulting and wrong at the same time. Well done.

In any case, this is a massive digression from my original post. The point is simply that I don't find it particularly rational to care about anything that happens after I am dead. As I will be dead, incapable of existing again, nothing that happens after that point will bear any relevance to me. I see it as important to make the world as pleasant as possible while I am alive, and once I am gone, whatever happens is in the hands of those remaining, and of our universe. It is their concern, not mine. While I adore the beauty of this world's many life forms and natural scenes, they simply cannot matter to the non-existent, which I will be.

That's a lot of words to say "I'm selfish and I'm proud of it."