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Posted 2002-12-27, 07:31 PM
in reply to Chruser's post "Why didn't we end human life earlier?"
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Chruser said:
Well, think about it. Humans are just energy that cannot be destroyed or recreated, just changed. We're the same as trees, rocks and nuclear missiles, which are also energies. Our feelings are just energies, and our pain is just indicated by our nerve cells that say that something is wrong.
Now, doesn't everyone want people to live and to prosper? Who seriously enjoys watching people in Africa starve to death? Clearly very few people. But we still multiply, and soon, hundreds of billions of people could live in the world, most likely even in space. Now, researchers have said that the universe WILL come to an end at some point, most likely by a collapse and merge of everything back into one single point. By then, nothing can or will be remembered.
So, if we're all destined to die and be forgotten anyway, why don't we end all human life right away? Six billion people would suffer far less than several hundreds of billions, so aren't we in fact just planning to torture humanity by living on this planet?
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As a child I lived in the Philippines, its a third world country below Japan and above Indonesia. When I was a child I saw people starve and do everything they could to keep their family alive. Starving was common place where I grew up, though I was lucky. You say its hard to watch African children starve, and it is, but think if you lived right next dOor to them. As chidlren they have no choice as did I, my mother kept me well supported and me and my aunts family lived of what my mom was sending them from the US. During the summer time I would go to an island called Mindoro and I made many friends. They were sons of farmers and fishermen, while I was well fed I watched those closest to me starve, needless to say they came over where I lived often... I tried my hardest to stay there as much as possible but my Aunt did not want me too and in the end when I turned 8 I was brought tot he U.S away from poverty misery and friends.
Since then I am too embarrassed to go back and face my friends, they grew up with an immense amount of hardship and I was spared. Though I concider ideals such as 'what is the point' or 'we are going to die anyway why live?' a personal question. I live so that one day I can go back as an adult and give my friends the happiness they deserve, I want to give them hope for happier and better days - this is why I can do everything I do in my studies and school with a strong heart. We all have something we live for, and no matter what the Universe does we will always keep on living if not for ourself but for our friends and families...


Last edited by Rapture; 2002-12-27 at 07:35 PM.
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