TheMemoman said:
Earth is such a rich planet, just fit for sustaining higher life forms such as ours. Yet mankind's primitive, egocentric and greedy economical organization has pillaged and sullied Earth's very rare and delicate life support equilibrium. With no concern for other species', nor our own, survival. Do we really want to spread out this venomous, cannibalistic society through the universe? Is it not a development plan always meant to fail? To cause disparity, injustice and poverty? To end in territorial war?
The exploration of space needs a more socially evolved mankind to have any kind of success.
Hello friend.
The universe is home to things that explode a lot. Like Stars. Remember those? Yeah those fckers have probably killed more living things than Humans did and ever will. Earth itself has murdered most of its creations. Heck, most species on earth are getting by with a lot of killing.
Add to that the incredible number of "low probability but with total ruination" events that the universe regularly throws at things inside of itself. Like big rocks. The universe sure likes to have rocks hit other things....
Currently, only humanity has made it to a point where all the things that kill everything are even understood, let alone developing the capability to do something about it.
Life as we know it on earth is flat out incompatible with what the rest of the universe is mostly made of: Things that kill shit by just being there.
Has vacuum ever made an attack against someone, like a human? nope. But it will sure as fck kill you if you step into its presence unprepared. You might have learned that there is a whole lot of vacuum. And when there is not, something more killtastic has taken its place.
You can blabber about how humanity is such a scourge on this poor blue planet (that has survived at least 3 apocalyptic events and is still rocking a fckton of life) all you want but there is on immutable fact you ignore:
Its humans that have begun developing Technology, science and an understanding of how the universe works. Its humanity that will eventually fix its own errors, its science and technology that will spread a part of earth wherever humans will go.
Whatever mistakes we as a species, as a civilisation make - at some point we will fix them.
I can't subscribe to your humanity scourge crap. If i'd believe that i could not wake up in the morning and go to my cog in the machine job.
I believe that humanity will correct itself because at some point the immutable fact that the universe is a killing machine will get into peoples heads. Our current dicking around is unsustainable and the facts will force a course shift.