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Originally Posted by RebOver
I disagree with your view. People are not exploiting the Earth's resources with bauchnal abandon. Your opinion is skewed to highlight the negatives and ignores the wonder and joys of being alive. There is no celestial balance sheet to validate our existence. I delight in being alive, interacting with others and most especially in the love I have for my husband and daughter. Were the world as you describe then we would be depressed, insensitive biological leeches aware only of our need for immediate gratification. Were this true there would be no efforts towards conservation, education, art or religion. The decrease in the birthrate of industrialized societies reflects more on peoples access to birth control, ability to provide and care for dependents, infant survival rates and the modern worlds diminished need for a family to birth its own labor force.
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Human emotions are very powerful and essential for the survival and well being of humans but more power the emotion is, less rational it becomes.
For example, I love my son very simply and I probably do anything for him.
But there are a lot of young children like my son who are suffering from disease and the lack of opportunities and if you believe in equality of every human being, my act of giving everything to my son without the equal amount of consideration to other children would be very difficult to justify.
My point is not that if you add negatives and positives of being alive, the negatives are much bigger that positives but that these emotional aspects of human beings are shaped by the history of evolution and they can not give us rational meaning to survive and especially to reproduce.
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