Should Humanity go extinct?

[eltomas2003]

https://www.quora.com/Should-humans-vol ... go-extinct
"I’m reading through below and seeing all these smart sounding people with probably high levels of education answer these questions and I’m shaking my head. My opinion like some other’s below, is unpopular. The answer is a big resounding YES, we should go extinct, and not only that, we DESERVE to go extinct. We have totally and utterly trashed this planet. Mistreated its wildlife, natural resources and each other. We may be living in less violent times than in any previous century or age, but we have never been as lost as we are now. From the western world, all people seem to care about is what celebrities are doing, when is the latest iPhone coming out, showing off and taking selfies. Sure, when there’s an attack, or a hurricane they turn their head for 5 minutes, then go back to their phones or instagram. Lost. The amount of people actually getting it, and moving humanity forward are so small in number when compared to the entire population.

I think whats most disturbing to me is the human centred arrogance I’m hearing in the answers. Human extinction is not to solve religious problems, social and economic issues, poverty, violence and war… These are HUMAN issues started and brought to the table by humans. The REASON why we should go extinct is so that we leave this planet and all it’s other species - (that have a respect for the balance of nature) alone.

I’m sure there are other worlds with other intelligent life (once again, human arrogance in the answers below still holds onto the notion that we are it, and no other species will thrive on this planet after we’re gone) - new flash, look around, we’re not that smart - and if you actually think that the measuring stick of our intelligence is that ‘we went to the moon’ you need a bigger imagination and a much better measuring stick.

There are other species out there in the universe that mis-treated their surroundings as we did, and whether they’re gone or not, they’ve paid for it. That is nature - cause and effect, and it’s not limited to this planet or our short-sighted view of the galaxy."-Parker

https://www.quora.com/Does-humanity-deserve-extinction

"The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."

Albert Einstein

"For ages, many wise men have warned us that there would be consequences if we don't fix the corruption in our systems that promote greed, cruelty, war and pollution. You can argue that not all of us are evil but we are all guilty of standing idley by as corrupt leaders divide us and cator to the wealthy psychopaths who bribe them. Of course this does not include those who are too young to know right from wrong but they too will grow to be as guilty as the rest of us. I truly believe that we were given a chance to fix the balance and we failed over and over again. Now nature has found a new way to correct that balance. If covid isn't successful at drastically decreasing our population then nature will eventually find another way. The problem is that the destruction we have caused on this planet will last long after we are gone. If mankind rapidly becomes extinct we won't have time to dismantle our nuclear reactors and they will eventually irradiate the entire planet. This would slowly kill almost every species that is left after we are gone. There is also a strong possibility that we will destroy the planet with nuclear weapons before that happens. Unfortunately at this point it is too late for mankinds extinction to have a positive effect on the planet."-Rhys Morris

"Yes. Humans are the pinnacle of scum. If there was a button to press to end all human life I would mash that button until the button ground to dust. Humans are vile, insipid and incredibly destructive creatures and individually, either humans are sadistic sociopathic scum or they are cowards who refuse to take out the sociopathic trash.

It could have gone differently but what happened was humans instead evolved into either sadistic elitist scum or sadistic sycophant scum who gladly exploit and cause misery to each other and to every animal on the planet all to pamper the alpha trash ape. Sure, there are humans who don’t misbehave, but those humans lack the fortitude to force the sadistic scum to account for their crimes against Earth’s biosphere. Humans are such losers that 7 billion of us are allowing the destruction of the biosphere all to pamper about 400 super-elitists, killing ourselves and millions of other species, while the sadisitic eltisit scum look down intro the pigpen with thigh slapping guffaws and snorts.

Humans are such a threat to the biosphere that I want to see chimpanzees wiped out because chimps exhibit every evil vile attribute that humans do. I can easily see chimpanzees millions of years from now rabidly chanting “better a pedophile than a Demochimp, SNARK! SNARK!” in support of a pedophile alpha chimp who rapes and murder baby chimps and then brags about all the chimp pussy he grabs and how CO2 has no effect on climate.

And the biggest reason humans deserve extinction, their infinite religious hubris. These piles of homo Sapiens filth PRETEND there is a special Magical Sky Ape of the cosmos who made the entire cosmos, a septillion star systems as an impossibly tiny human ant farm for his own sadistic entertainment. Even when humans try to concoct the perfectly moral being they prove their infinite moral relativism. Our perfect God is an Angry and Jealous God who gushes approval for mass murdering pervert tyrants like King David. God is a petty tyrant who relishes causing pain and suffering for his own sadistic entertainment and we are told that kind of evil is perfectly righteous and good. All religions’ gods are the same piles of infinite moral relativist filth. This shows that humans at their core are the most putred form of evil because they can’t even imagine a just and kind God. Humans are too dishonest, too hypocritical, too stupid and far too sadistic to even imagine a just and loving God.

Humans are garbage and the cosmos should take out the trash by evolving a disease that will exterminate this disgusting species, Homo Detritus, down to the last sniveling trash ape. And when the last sniveling trash apes look to the sky to beseech God for help nobody will answer, not even a no, all the magical thinking will come crashing in at last and the last pile of filth humans will know they deserved it."-Earl Graves

[eltomas2003]

This is why I want to nuke the entire planet and eliminate every trace of humanity if I had the chance.
It will take a very long time before degenerate lifeforms reappear to ruin the earth.

[eltomas2003]

Humanity is pure evil, change my mind.

[eltomas2003]

Why shouldn't we kill humanity?
Originally a comment, but now an answer.

Children. They are one major reason you shouldn’t kill off all of humanity. Think about it, most of the bad people on this Earth usually aren’t kids nor are they babies either. You want to wipe out all humans which presumably includes helpless babies and equally helpless children. There are almost two billion of them and they are indeed messy, clumsy, loud, uncooperative creatures, but usually they are overall much better people than Trump or Putin or Steve Jobs or other shady characters. Think about it, the worse thing a child can really do is mildly annoy people eating in a restaurant, or kill insects. Kids seem to like doing this for some reason … not really a nice thing to do but certainly nowhere as bad as rape, murder, genocide, etc. You want to punish the children of the world with death for the crimes of old people like Putin and Trump? You want to wipe out all of humanity including two billion little human beings with so much potential? Some of these kids could grow up to be the scientists who figure out a cure for cancer, or develop the technology we need to successfully extract materials from asteroids in space. You want to deny humanity the chance to progress and improve because of all the bad men about? What if I told you that we are mere decades away from the rise of superhuman artificial intelligence, and that one day they could be replacing politicians, business owners, and other influential people with bad morals? We could even create nano-machines that inhabit our brains and regulate our behavior so that we don’t rape, kill, and do other bad stuff!

I am creeped out by people like you who preach the “evils of humankind” and call for the extinction of our species. It is clear that you have lost all touch with reality and think that each and every single person is bad or evil or whatever. This mentality that humans are inherently bad is a dangerous mentality historically speaking, people who hold this notion especially when in charge of great armies and cruel weapons have been known to be less careful about inflicting unnecessary human suffering. Your worldview is comparable to the one held by the awful men of Imperial Japan. They believed that all humans were complete monsters like themselves and this justified in their minds atrocities such as the Rape of Nanjing because they genuinely believed that everybody they targeted was being just as bad or had the capability to be just as bad. It was common for Japanese propaganda to accuse the Americans of raping babies in the various islands which were the battleground for one of the Earth’s most awful regimes. Your mentality is that every single human being deserves to die (you didn't really specify why but I can make an educated guess on your reasons). Honestly, people like you scare me. You have no empathy for all the ordinary human beings who are not killing or raping or anything like that. Most of the human race consists, believe it or not, of relatively peaceful, benevolent beings who actually have morals. You want two billion infants and children to die because you think they are evil?? Where is your empathy? Where is your compassion?

Human life is very valuable and absolutely sacred. You are just as bad as the bad people you hate if you wish to end all human life in order to get rid of those bad people. There is no afterlife, no heaven or hell, and reincarnation if it exists doesn’t work the way Hollywood wants you to think it does. Death means the end of the self, the end of perception. Dead people cannot taste anything or smell anything or see anything or hear anything or even touch anything. Dead people have no thoughts going through their head as the brain shuts down upon death. You know that death means the end of consciousness, right? You want to deny almost two billion young, innocent little human beings the joy of existence? You want to take away their ability to play with Pokemon games, go camping, watch their favorite movies, eat ice cream, play with cute kittens or puppies or other baby animals, and more. They aren’t the only people victimized by your mentality, just the most unfortunate victims due to all the lost potential that comes with ending a seven year old’s days before he even really has his own distinct personality and way before he has even experienced the joy of travelling abroad, of going camping, of whatever. Yeah, I am referring to Julian Cadman, that unfortunate little boy that died in the Barcelona attack. Poor kid was way too young, and what has the world lost because of his premature death? For all we know he could had grown up to become the next Einstein or next Obama or whoever. Statistically it is unlikely, but because it never happened, we can’t say for certain that had he lived, he would not eventually become somebody very successful who brings humanity forward. This is why the death of a child is so devastating. The lost potential. The big what-ifs. The life being ended so soon. The magic of children is that societies evolve for the better with them, sometimes the evolution is slow and at times it may even go backwards, but societies tend to progress as a result of their children growing up and realizing that the previous generations had it all wrong with something, and so they fix that something, and the cycle continues. Children create a better world with each passing generation, and if you kill off all humans, our civilization will have ended before we even figured out faster than light travel. Someday, we will be dancing among the stars thanks to kids who have likely not yet been born and might never be born if you had your way.
https://www.quora.com/Can-you-give-me-1 ... human-race

[badmachine]

Humanity is pure evil, change my mind.

you are evil and should be exterminated, change my mind.

your attitude is a direct result of rejection of God and you need to repent.

[eltomas2003]

Humanity is pure evil, change my mind.

you are evil and should be exterminated, change my mind.

your attitude is a direct result of rejection of God and you need to repent.

I apologize for my hasty generations made in a sentiment of great anger based on the content I read, I hope everything will improve in terms of relations between you and me. There is no evidence that god exists, outside of religious texts.

[ericbarbour]

Perhaps I should post stupid memes here.

[badmachine]

Perhaps I should post stupid memes here.

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yes. :^)

[ericbarbour]

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[eltomas2003]

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what do you want me to deliver then?
This is what made me feel angry about humanity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thupCblBXFI