On Aug 11, 3:22*pm, David Spain wrote:
Quadibloc wrote:
On Aug 10, 6:24 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:

It doesn't really matter if the human race becomes extinct - after all,
who would be there to care?

We are here *now*, and we would be dismayed if our heroic
accomplishments were not remembered by descendants of ours on into the
indefinite future.

I celebrate the cave-prototype guy/gal who discovered upright walking everyday!

Let's face it, in a million years we'll have as much in common with our
descendants (if any) that we have with our million year old ancestors....

The best they'll be able to say about us is that we didn't kill ourselves off.
Which long term, is the best anyone can do...

I realize that in the present time, quaffing tankards of mead as bards
sing skalds about Einstein or Ramanujan or Telford or Bach has
somewhat fallen out of fashion.

But I do disagree that the _only_ reason to worry about something that
makes humanity extinct is the screams of those who perish at the
moment this happens. If human extinction were a non-event, and only
human suffering is bad... the human race should sterilize itself now,
and avoid the rush.

John Savard