somebody wrote:
> "nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
>> This argument of "well, that's a problem for our sons and grandsons"
>> really bothers me.  We may well have no descendants to handle that kind
>> of responsability.
> 
> I find it irrational for people to care about realities they are not, and
> cannot be, part of. Assume parallel universes, for a moment. Should I care
> that in one of those universes, "my" counterpart dies a horrific and painful
> death? Well, a human being living on this universe but 500 years from now
> (in either direction) is just as, if not more, detached from my reality. I
> don't care one way or another.

Which is why we can trash this world so badly within a human lifetime: 
there are no consequences.

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