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RE: Are our emotions enough of a reason to support the survival of mankind?

in #writing7 years ago

Loved seeing this subject! I shared on my instagram the other day a few sad thoughts about Sudan, the last male white rhino dying. I cannot even begin to fathom where we think we got the right to treat this planet and its many creatures so horrifically.

So many people are totally unconscious of how their actions ripple out into the world. Not that I believe myself to be fully conscious by any means, but I at least try to pay attention to how my choices and the choices of the people I support play out on the larger stage.

I think a lot of wanting to reproduce and have children is for that emotional support. As we age, we need youthto hel p take care of us and adopt the physically demanding jobs of adulthood. That was a survival technique, but now that we have prolonged our lifespan through medical procedures etc, the amount of elderly is beginning to weigh down on the youth, and we won't be able to sustain this momentum.

In the end, I suppose, what can we really do but try our best?

Thanks for sharing these thoughts!

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts too :)

Rights are a tricky thing since they are our own creation. We decide what we "should" do out of our judgement and then we enforce these thoughts upon reality, upon others and upon our expectations.

And yeah, I hadn't actually thought of that about children being our emotional support. Maybe not so much as pets but as an insurance of the future? Like investments in crypto, but with a much bigger emotional charge and a lot of genetics in the way.

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