To be fine with the human race becoming extinct

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I mean ideally not while I'm around to see it but I assume it will happen eventually and I don't care at all.

I ask this became some people do seem to care and say things Iike "if we don't have more children our species will come to an end!"

...ok and?

Domesticated animals would be eaten pretty quickly by stronger domesticated animals and then by wild animals. They wouldn't stand a chance.

You don't want future humans you'll never meet to suffer and yet...

The only way humanity will become extinct is through mass and prolonged human suffering. Famine and war and disease and disaster. For hundreds and probably thousands of years.

So I think this is a pretty silly, sixth form conversation.

Having children shouldn't be a hobby

I love my species. OK, so some of them are shit, but most are pretty amazing. No, I don’t want us to go extinct.

I think it would be the best thing in the world if humans became extinct. It’s almost like the planet needs to blow up completely and start again from scratch.
Theres too much violence, destruction and depravity in this world. To name a few: Wars, Body Of German Woman, Paraded By Hamas, Found In Gaza.
Epstein and his associates, Lily Philips, Bonnie Blue and their customers, Plumpton College students sadistic killing of a sheep https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g9e3q3gdo
Abusers, Murderers, Racists, Perpetrators of domestic violence, Peadophiles… etc, etc, etc. The list could go on and on and on.
What a horrible world we live in. How did it ever come to this?!
Human beings are the worst species on the planet!

Does the specific idea of humanity going extinct actually keep anyone up at night? Obviously everyone cares about their loved ones and in a more abstract sense the things they love about human culture, but if you were told that yes, millennia from now humanity would be extinct, would you actually feel especially distressed?

Oh bore off with the evolutionary perspective.

People who reduce everything down to our "biological drives" are TEDIOUS, insulting to the child-free and infertile, and homophobic to boot. And just plain wrong too.

100 years? Most people would mind, that’s out chidlren and grandchildren suffering

Well, I just spotted a very frail, elderly person taken into the doctors surgery and had the horrible, terrible thought that humans are not happier for living longer and if we all lived shorter lives, individual life quality and society overall would be better off.
But actually so much of science is focused on prolonging human life at the moment.

🙄

Whether you like it or not, that is how evolution works. I am not reducing anything to anything, I am well aware that we are a (comparatively) sophisticated species and we have (thankfully) evolved beyond just these biological functions. It still doesn't change the fact that we - as a species, not as individuals - are designed to keep ourselves alive. That's basically what all our bodily functions exist for (and no, I am not just talking about reproduction).

Won't someone think of the paediatric nurses!?

These threads are always stupid because people come up with nonsense scenarios where one thing changes (e.g. AI takes everyone's job), but nothing else does (people have no money, so everyone dies of starvation except a handful of tech bros).

Agreed.

I mean it’s not likely to be an overnight thing though, like every human goes to bed one night and doesn’t wake up. There’s either a catastrophic event with untold suffering to make that happen, or a slow population decline, which would mean lost knowledge like medicine and technology making life harder for those remaining. If it was something like fertility decreasing then some handmaids tale type scenario could happen before that, so again more suffering before the extinction.
And then eventually one or two people will be left in the entire world to slowly die alone. That thought makes me very sad to be honest. Especially if those last remaining were children.
Whilst I know humans do diabolical things in and to this world, not every human is bad. And I also know every species will die out or go exist at one time or another, but I don’t want to think how it will be for those last survivors.

It will never come to an end but like you I truly don’t care about birth rates nor humanity ending.

We just need to change the way we do things in society.

Humans have destroyed many beautiful natural habitats of other creatures.
Our over population risks more diseases to all living things. Our food is being grown further away - not locally, fresh and with few air miles.

Eventually humans will breed themselves to extinction or to drastic culling. We consume too much. Even now we think resources of water, land etc can be utilised to house data and grow AI. Construction teams envelop fields every hour.

Humanity has forgotten about the insects, animals, flowers and trees that need to exist in unison to keep the planet healthy.

I think it would be a huge shame if the only species that was attempting to work out the complexities of the earth's processes and the universe was wiped out.

Are we not the only species that can comprehend the beauty of the whole earth and the universe and the only species to try to figure out how it all works?

In a hundred years we may even have a way to visit all parts of the universe. It would be such a shame to snuff that out!!!

So YABU if you can't feel excited about the possibilities of humans continuing to exist.

People only say this because they're thinking of humanity in an abstract sense. If you thought of all the individual lives that would be snuffed out you wouldn't be so blasé about it.

Everybody dies.

I agree in principle- surely the planet will be glad of us when we are gone, however what worries me in how unstable and dangerous it will be for the ones left at the end, and when that might be. Probably in 200 years? Unfortunately due to greedy psychopathic tech companies and billionaires and the result of capitalism, humans will be at war over habitat loss due to climate change and water and food scarcity. Ideally we’d have a controlled and consented to, population decline (aka falling birth rates) and go back to living off the land in small communities. But that’s bad for capitalism so they won’t let us.

And I really believe that other than to prevent suffering of diseases the true reason of us living longer is to be worker bees for longer. I’m 34 and imagine I’ll “be allowed” to retire from the NHS at 70-75 at this rate. It’s currently 68 for me.

So it’s ok if it’s your great, great, great grandchildren, but not your grandchildren?

Why? Because you expect your genes to be more diluted by then?

We are also the only species to create massive destruction to virtually every other species on the planet. Unfortunately, humans do a lot more harm than good. Even if we didn’t go extinct, the world would be significantly better off if our numbers were dramatically reduced.

Agree. I don’t think that we should be so focused on prolonging life at all costs.

I agree. Humans do not deserve this planet. We are the only species to have treated it with utter contempt.

Our selfishness, greed and ignorance would not be missed and nature has an amazing ability to regenerate over time.

I don't "mind" about the abstract concept of there being no more humans. I can eveb recognise that it would be a good thing.

But if not while you're around, when OP? For your DC or Grandchildren? And it will be awful. It won't happen overnight, there'll be drought, famine, war. We've actually been trying to do it for a long time.