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[Post-Midnight Post]
Picking at my fingernails, that childish habit turned addiction of mine, took up a chunk of my time today. I prioritized putting my fingers in pain over eating a half-decent amount of food during my lunch break.
In a more natural environment, people like me wouldn't have lived this long. Our varying forms of weakness would've gotten us killed multiple times over by now.
This perspective can lead such a person to believe that committing suicide is their duty, in order to correct their unnatural existence and escape the years of despair that come with it. However, if we're evaluating all human lives by their natural justification, then almost all of them are unjust, due to carbon footprints. This latter realization gave me an existential crisis four years ago.
We need to accept that the value of human lives shouldn't be judged significantly on the basis of environmental impact. I feel like almost everyone else already believes something similar.
As for ending your own life; doing so rejects the blessings of the world that our species has crafted. It's not a "mistake" that we've lived this long, it's an opportunity that we always have ways to take advantage of. Our society is unfair, yes, but compare it to what nature subjects lesser species to and you may become more grateful. Maybe the less severe consequences for our poor decisions cause us to make them so often.
I'm agnostic, and have no confident guesses on what will happen when I die. I might as well make the most of the life that I have right now.
Picking at my fingernails, that childish habit turned addiction of mine, took up a chunk of my time today. I prioritized putting my fingers in pain over eating a half-decent amount of food during my lunch break.
In a more natural environment, people like me wouldn't have lived this long. Our varying forms of weakness would've gotten us killed multiple times over by now.
This perspective can lead such a person to believe that committing suicide is their duty, in order to correct their unnatural existence and escape the years of despair that come with it. However, if we're evaluating all human lives by their natural justification, then almost all of them are unjust, due to carbon footprints. This latter realization gave me an existential crisis four years ago.
We need to accept that the value of human lives shouldn't be judged significantly on the basis of environmental impact. I feel like almost everyone else already believes something similar.
As for ending your own life; doing so rejects the blessings of the world that our species has crafted. It's not a "mistake" that we've lived this long, it's an opportunity that we always have ways to take advantage of. Our society is unfair, yes, but compare it to what nature subjects lesser species to and you may become more grateful. Maybe the less severe consequences for our poor decisions cause us to make them so often.
I'm agnostic, and have no confident guesses on what will happen when I die. I might as well make the most of the life that I have right now.