Originally Posted by Reshiss
When you feel a bit depressed & your day is full of doubt,
Remember in the scheme of things, your life just doesn't count.
Compared to outer space you're just a tiny little speck
On the dark side of this rock, you're just a meaty little fleck.
You think there's nothing better than the planet we call Earth
But we all seem pretty tiny next to Neptune's mighty girth.
In other words, if life was wiped out, who'd care? The universe would still exist, just like how we still exist when we kill an ant colony.
Life doesn't matter. The universe would still go on.
Originally Posted by Proke
there is no justification for why life is good or why it's bad so their values are equal
human life = ant life = 0
Please don't do this.
Acknowledging the legitimacy of nihilism only gets in the way of perfectly good discussions. When it comes to the notion that all things are objectively worthless, it's almost always a good idea to not mention it. This shouldn't be difficult. We have thousands of years of evolution trying to stop us comprehending how meaningless life is. On top of that, society has been conditioning you, and everyone around you to believe in morals for your entire life.
The reason people don't post about it isn't because they don't know it, they just understand that it is pointless to even bring up and that it adds nothing to the conversation and is basically stating the obvious (right?).
If you want to talk about the insignificance of life in general then it can probably have its own (probably rather short-lived) discussion thread. But until then just try to forget about it.
Good morning sweet princess
Originally Posted by Skizzify
The life of a human is more important than the life of an ant. If you started killing off every human you wouldn't have houses, you wouldn't have buildings, you wouldn't have ANYTHING. While those people are sitting there typing away on their little iPads or their iPhone they don't realize how important the life of a human is compared to a dog or an ant
Originally Posted by Zelda
The reason people don't post about it isn't because they don't know it, they just understand that it is pointless to even bring up and that it adds nothing to the conversation
Without using some nilhisum the topic becomes trivial most of the things that we are saying are true if human life died the earth would go on it's common sense when someone is more worried that if there were no humans there would be no houses or iPads what else are you supposed to talk about? I honestly thought he didn't know about it and I don't think it's fair to say that it adds nothing to the conversation this topic is clearly opinionated and if somebody has their opinion why wouldn't they be allowed to say or shunned upon for sharing it
And honestly when a single insect is the main thing you have to compare to it gets dull like humans vs all other life would have been better
Like how many animals or species going extinct would be equivalent to one human? Ir how many animals would have to be in danger for 1 human to come off as almost a equal sacrifice
Also I believe there are 11000 species of ant how many ant species would have to go extinct for it to equal 1 human i personally don't even know
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Originally Posted by Skizzify
I'm talking about invasive species vs more important species.
I agree that ants and wasps are huge jerks but like what makes you think human life is significant (No offence to any humans) but we just kinda live here the earth doesn't need us and neither does any other planet not saying murder is ok just saying that we are only important to our selves, just like how ants are important to themselves the earth doesn't need ant nor does it need us so whats the point in killing ants for decoration it's not a necessity and we should not do it
Originally Posted by Skizzify
If you started killing off every human you wouldn't have houses, you wouldn't have buildings, you wouldn't have ANYTHING
without humans there would be no demand for buildings therefore no problem
Last edited by Candy; Mar 11, 2016 at 11:10 PM.
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