Billions, millions, trillions or 7. Does it matter? Or does it only matter relatively? Is that really a difference of any significance? Does one in a billion, matter more than one in a million? Why should we care? Nothing is new, not even us; not my song, not your song, not their misery, not my misery. Suffering has gone on for the last 14 billion years, at least, in this universe. One, one hundred, one thousand, one hundred thousand, even one bloody million… one universe, one trillion universes. It is still one and that single one doesn't matter anymore or any less then next single one, one million, one billion or one trillion. I think we are like maggots on a rotting corpses and we try give ourselves much more significance than we deserve.Gorgon wrote: ↑07 Feb 2018The big difference being that we're talking about billions this time, who reproduce even more (thanks largely to religion) billions of people. The planet simply can't handle it. This will not end well.splangie wrote: ↑11 Jan 2018At least it is interesting. But none of this is new except nuclear. The world has always been full of SAMFs. There have always been huge numbers of people in misery and suffering and despair, plus any other terrible thing you can think of. And no matter how bad anyone has it, millions have and will have it even worse, forever. It is now and ever shall be.... blah blah blah blah. Amen, Amen.
It might not end well for some, but it might turn out just fine for others. Maybe after the "real", "big", "great", "last", "war", when the earth is in smolders and before everything gets going again, a scrap dealer from another planet or galaxy will drive by, detect some polonium and make enough off the resale to buy that new power supply for his pleasure yacht. It always works out in the end. Heck, the end is the only thing we have to count on.