He said to Neo that humans are like a virus, breeding and infecting the world with our “stick” and general disgustingness.

I look around the world, at the state of society, the environment, international conflict and the enshitification of humanity - I’ve gone through my life blindly accepting that life for life’s sake is beautiful, and worth it.

But as I see the state of it all, our perpetual need to destroy each other over ideas and resources, I struggle to come to grips with it. Societies around the world are facing population shrinkage… Do they all know something I don’t?

Is human life beautiful, and objectively worth perpetuating? Or are we a blight? Why should we be?

  • cmeu@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    9 months ago

    How does this Wikipedia argument address whether or not we’re a blight, or if we should be?

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      It raises the question on whether we’re a net positive (or, well, argues that we are). Humans do a lot of shitty things but on the whole it’s worth it.