Is Humanity Worth Saving?
It's an interesting question given humanity's propensity for shortsighted and self-destructive decision making. Glibly, the answer is no. It's not worth saving and should get exactly what it deserves. It is not earning its way as a responsible contributor to the universe. That, of course, begs the question of what does the universe want? Other than a few fantasies that we've crafted it's unclear. We have values as humans such as order, beauty, and joy. Science is the objective pursuit of discovering order in the universe. Beauty straddles a line between the objective and subjective. Much of what is considered to be beautiful are objective observations with subjective assessments. Joy is entirely subjective and tends to be generated by the orderly and beautiful. These are potential self-centered reasons for humans to continue to exist, but in an of themselves don't answer the question of what the universe wants. What does the universe...