Do You Care About The Future You Will Not Be Here For?

Do you care what life will be for your great great great great great grandchildren? What about your descendents 300 years after that? 3000 years after that? How far can it go?
Do you care whether a cruel dictator rules the planet 200 years from now?
Do you care whether there is a nuclear war 250 years from now?
Are your morals influenced by thoughts of the future?
Will the future be affected by your morals?
Do you care whether humanity becomes extinct in 500 years or 5000 years or 5 million or 5 billion years?

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I might care...but not a whole lot.

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Who was the comedian who said something along the lines of

Stuff the future what have they ever done for us?

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Johnny Dingo.

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Didn't know the name. Took time off from doing nothing to look it up

Why should I care about future generations – what have they ever done for me?” Groucho Marx

http://se-ed.co.uk/edu/future-generations-ever-done/

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Kinda reminds me of drilling a hole in the base of a mountain to stash your nuclear waste, filling it up with concrete and hoping it goes undisturbed for at least 100 000 yrs.

But how does your treasure map stay out there somewhere?

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Troubling responses . More than troubling , none caring about Human existence , period.

The psychology of our times .

 

The youngest kin i have right now is 4… an ive thout as far ahead as her havin kids of her own some day... and i like to thank that bein alive will be as good for them as it is for me… but a future beyond that is so impersonal that i thank about it in general terms... that human life will continue to evolve into whatever it will… an if the human line goes extinct im ok wit that.!!!

 

I'm not ok with our extinction .

It is an insult to our ancestors , who did struggle so hard to exist . To be .

 

Then many ancestors will be insulted if big asteroid hits an earth is toast.!!!

 

I live in the present.

 

I don't care too much, to be honest, at least not enough to be an activist. I do my part in terms of not wanting to exacerbate the situation with regard global warming, I recycle but probably not as much as others think I should.

In a letter to my great great... great grand-children:
Hi,
One of your ancestors lied: you are not directly related to me. I had no children, so stop bothering me with your requests for handouts, and no, I'm not selling my house to help pay for your education.
Other than that, make sure you wrap up well in the cold, and wear that factor-infinity sunblock for the days in summer when your skin won't melt.
And if you're being ruled over by a Trump then you probably deserve it.
Now I have more important things to do than worry about people I don't know... like choose which cereal to have for breakfast.

 

It is 1 of many things I sometimes think about that does not affect my life much but I do care.

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Then you must embrace scientific skepticism and reject faith.

 

Well, try to evolve into something like bacteria, you might have a better chance of surviving things.