Southern-Trip-1102 t1_iu3hxtq wrote
Reply to comment by Surur in The Heavy Price of Longtermism | Longtermists focus on ensuring humanity’s existence into the far future. But not without sacrifices in the present. by thenewrepublic
Yes we do have a responsibility to the future, survival/existence is the prerequisite for anything you could possibly want for humanity besides the death of humanity, thus it should be the priority. Our function as a species is to survive.
Surur t1_iu3isoa wrote
Why should I or anyone else care about the survival of "humanity"? It's just a concept.
Southern-Trip-1102 t1_iu3ja7e wrote
Why should you care for the suffering or pleasure of a living human, its just a group of cells or neurons, just a concept.
Look in the end there is no objective reason to care about suffering collective survival or whatever. All morality is made up. The reason I advocate for long term collective survival being maximized is because its the closest thing there is to an objective function for a species.
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