Would you be sad if you found out that human race would be dead in 100 years?

[Jayson1]

Between war and climate change I think we will be dead by that time. Maybe a few small groups of humans still around but no enough to keep the species going. Me I would and I am sad that my younger niece nieces and nephews will have live in good chunk of the time before that and those will be even worst times than we are currently going through.

As for the species dying I got to admit I am okay with it. If we were dumb enough to kill ourselves then it's got to be better in the long run for us to end and hope maybe something much more evolved will follow us. Plus it's nice to know that I was born basically in a fairly good time period. Not old enough to live through some of the worst stuff in the past or old enough to a point were I will have to endure to much of the horrible stuff in the future. That's why we Gen Xer's have to be the 2nd luckiest generation only behind the MTV generation though I do feel bad that they didn't get to experience Alanis Morrisette as young person in her true habitat which was the early to mid 90's.

Jason

 

[Tosk]

Of course I would.

 

[Jayson1]

Of course I would.

It wouldn't be the end of life. I don't even think it would be the end of sentient life since I think we all know that alien life most likely exists even though we will never get to meet them. Plus I think death is a better option than life becoming all "Mad Max" like because as bad as those people are, you know real people would be 10 times, worst.

Jason

 

[Tosk]

We're gonna be just fine in 100 years. People always think the end is nigh.

 

[Jayson1]

We're gonna be just fine in 100 years. People always think the end is nigh.

This time though we used and will use technology to make it happen.

Jason

 

[Snaploud]

Yes, I would be sad. At a minimum, if our race is doomed, I would like us first to have had a positive influence over other alien species. To just die off without bringing benefits to others...is just depressing as a notion.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I'd be sad if I had any descendants around during those final days of Humanity.

But removing my own personal interest from the equation and looking at it without any emotional attachment, I probably would be more...disappointed that Humans wasted a lot of time fighting over ultimately petty things that were made more important than they should have been. We could have spent our time better. Achieved far more than we did. If we brought the end down upon ourselves, then maybe we should go because it means we're naturally self-destructive as a society and this is the way it was always going to end anyway. But if it's something that we can prevent, then by all possible means we should do so. We'd have only ourselves to blame if we didn't.

 

[Jayson1]

Yes, I would be sad. At a minimum, if our race is doomed, I would like us first to have had a positive influence over other alien species. To just die off without bringing benefits to others...is just depressing as a notion.

In theory we could be used as example for other life but i'm not sure how that message could be preserved to a point were any future species on earth would understand it or any alien life would as well. Not to mention we have tons of dead civilizations here on earth to a point were you think we should have been able to learn from our past mistakes but that doesn't seem to ever happen.

Jason

 

[Miss Chicken]

I think that what would worry me most is all the literature, music, art etc that would no longer have anyone to appreciate it. It wouldn't be as bad if I knew one days aliens would find it and recognise it worth.

 

[Jayson1]

I think that what would worry me most is all the literature, music, art etc that would no longer have anyone to appreciate it. It wouldn't be as bad if I knew one days aliens would find it and recognise it worth.

In theory but I also can think of a really horrible possibility in that area. What if one of the few things to survive is a plastic Jar Jar Binks toy since plastic doesn't bio-degrade? What if Jar Jar is our legacy!

Jason

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Yes. Next question.

 

[Spider]

I'd be sad, but I'd be in that big starship in the sky long before that happens. Well, unless humanity does something really stupid or Mama Nature flexes its muscles.

 

[Velocity]

Yes. Next question.

No no! Don't encourage his barrage of hypothetical questions!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

No no! Don't encourage his barrage of hypothetical questions!

Nothing stops that runaway train of thought.

 

[Tosk]

If we brought the end down upon ourselves, then maybe we should go because it means we're naturally self-destructive as a society and this is the way it was always going to end anyway.

So in other words, if our species goes extinct due to the actions of a relative few, we all deserved to go anyway?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The Great Filter claims another victim - it is the way of things. Or maybe the Singularity claims our patterns and makes us play shuffleboard for all eternity.

 

[C.E. Evans]

So in other words, if our species goes extinct due to the actions of a relative few, we all deserved to go anyway?

No. If it's a relative few, it can be stopped. But if it's something that's inherent in most of us, then it's just who we are.

 

[Jayson1]

No no! Don't encourage his barrage of hypothetical questions!

Aren't those the best questions? FInding out about dry facts are useless unless you want to come up with hypothetical ways to use them and opinion questions are nice but since it's never fully possible to truly express how one completely feels about something since the transition from thought to articulation is kind of hard since your opinions are always shifting ever moment you live then that leaves ones that simply relay on imagination and creative thinking as the best ones, IMO.

Jason

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

By then I would have been dead for at least 50 years - but I would be sad if the human race was dead.

 

[Jayson1]

By then I would have been dead for at least 50 years - but I would be sad if the human race was dead.

But are we sad that dinosaurs are dead because when they died we were able to be created. When we die I would like to think something else will someday be created as well. The only really sad day when you think about is when life is no longer able to exist on the planet and even then it's nice to think it's still going to be happening elsewhere in the universe.

Jason