We absolutely deserve every bit of what's going to happen to us. In the long run, it will always be about survival. There's no deserve anywhere in this picture. The universe is brutal.
I don't see any link from "we aren't special" to "we should cease to exist". More like as we have nothing special compared to other animals, we all are looking at survival. Except a significant difference is that most humans are not in a subsistence mode of survival. I'm not sure where I'm going with this but anyway, yeah... I don't think we are that special. Special, but not special.
Special but not special? What do you mean?
Hmm, the link I had meant was that if we think that anyone or anything deserves protection from destruction and humans are destroying and causing so many "evils" (as judged by humans), then humans should judge themselves as deficient and decide to disappear.
But we still remainm so this is a bit of delusion where we judge evils but consider that humanity is good.
Then comes the conclusion that there is no good or evil in the universe except the one we humans judge to be good or bad. Therefore we just live on for ourselves. Hmm. It's not really well explained, is it? LOL. Maybe I haven't been very clear-minded recently.
And it's remarkable that we are even in that state of awareness I suppose is what I'm getting at.
And I think the reason we bother to label good or evil at all is for the survival of a particular group of people. Order, control, and all that stuff.
That for sure is amazing. I love being able to sit under the full moon and think about the many tales about werewolves, think about the stars far away, the constellations and how tiny I am in comparison. And then a bird flies over and I feel a little shame that maybe no other animal can enjoy the pleasures of awareness.
And I agree with you, I think that the concept of good and evil depends on the person who thinks of them. Each society has a different set of morals and globalization homogenizes these morals. But before, it depended on the rulers, the "chief" society, the one that survived and was stronger in the wars, be them physical with weapons or cultural/economic.