"triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
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> "somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
> > I find it irrational for people to care about realities they are not,
and
> > cannot be, part of.

> You don't have kids, do you?  Of course I don't either, but that's beyond
the
> point.  I mean, really?  Stewardship?  Altruism?  Responsibility?  Are
these
> foreign concepts?

Even if I were altruistic and responsible to a fault, I don't see how I'd
know whether the extinction of coelacanth (or homo sapiens, for that matter)
would be a good thing or bad in the long run. It doesn't make sense to view
far future through our extremely limited and egocentric self-righteous
goggles. Do you mourn the extinction of dinosaurs? Do you mourn the red
dwarf sun enfulging earth? On evolutionary, geological or astronomical
timescales, our values based on scales of a lifetime at most are
meaningless.

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