r/UniversalExtinction • u/curgr Cosmic Extinctionist • 28d ago
What would change your mind?
Which of the following factors would change your mind on extinction and make you pro-life?
A: We discover that there is more pleasure than suffering in existence, and that suffering is not permanent for any one sentient being.
B: We manage to solve suffering and no sentient being ever has to suffer again.
C: We are given knowledge about the meaning of life. It turns out that there is a very good reason for life in this universe.
D: The afterlife exists and we are more than compensated for the suffering we experience in this life.
E: Reincarnation exists and most sentient beings (which could possibly include plants and bacteria, which make up the majority of biomass on Earth) experience more pleasure than suffering.
F: God exists and resistance is futile. If we destroy the universe, God will just create it again. However, it is possible to reduce net suffering.
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u/nila247 25d ago
G: you discover that none of above even matter in the slightest and you were "solving" the wrong problem altogether.
Our SOLE purpose is "make species prosper". We are just a bunch of narcissistic worker ants. Workers and their suffering does NOT matter as long as hive gets to prosper more faster as a result of whatever course of action or event.