Honestly, I think this is the most important question we should be asking ourselves as a species. Before theorizing and fighting about the kind of civilization we want, wouldn't it make sense to ask whether this whole humanity thing is worthwhile at all?https://twitter.com/KennethFolk/status/986131590916050944 …
Nobody gets to decide whether your own experience is worthwhile - not even some vague and abstract cosmic evolutionary process. By no will of our own, humans simply find ourselves as existing, experiencing beings who suffer. This is the only thing we can know with certainty.
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Sorry for using vague terms I've never described. Of course everyone is sovereign and has their right of choice. But also no one is separate from everything else and never has been. "We exist" because the sun(heat), the plants(oxygen and food), evolution and the big bang.
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Indeed. Everything is interrelated, and nobody is apart from nature in any fundamental sense. We're stuck with experience, and we don't have to make any value judgments about that, in either direction.
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The question "Is life worth the suffering?" is actually very good and profound one. It's the answer that "it's not worth the suffering" that is dangerous because it almost always leads to a worldview and behaviors that increase the suffering and make matters worse for everybody.
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