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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I meant "destroy the planet" as in lifeless/only single celled organisms.

And you can kind of see humanity as "just another big asteroid impact". Nature will recover competeley over the next million years or so. That's what I meant with mass extinctions being kind of inconsequential for the planet as a whole on geological time scales.

Obviously mass extinctions are also bad besides their effect on human society, I just meant that that is mostly a spiritual one thats hard to measure, about lost potential and eradicating a species. As a thought experiment, is eradicating a disease, a form of life, inherently negative? Mosquitoes? Do you agree that it's a big achievement that we eradicated small pox? What if we eradicate all existing diseases?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mass extinctions are different. We should be aiming to never have any more mass extinctions ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I guess that was a bit of a strawman. Obviously mass extinctions are bad.