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In reply to the discussion: Are you a Doomer™? [View all]Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)7. The human race is doomed to extinction.
Maybe in a million years, and maybe in 50 years. Who knows.
Petroleum-based industrial civilization is doomed to extinction when oil becomes too expensive to use. Maybe in a hundred years, maybe in 50 years. Who knows.
Climate change could wipe out our economy and throw us back into the dark ages or worse. Maybe in 500 years, maybe in 50 years. Who knows.
I'm not building bunkers or stock piling ammunition because I have no intention of surviving the collapse of civilization. First because it probably won't happen in my lifetime (I'm already 67), and second, because at my age, even if it does happen in my lifetime I'm too old and out of shape to deal with it effectively.
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Actually I was suggesting that the Age of Enlightenment was a product of our evolution
OKIsItJustMe
Apr 2012
#36
Try a morality that's a little more complex and problematic than altruism.
GliderGuider
Apr 2012
#52
You claimed (upstream) “Morality is a learned trait that is passed on through teaching”
OKIsItJustMe
Apr 2012
#57
He managed drunk and disorderly Captain Americas and Mad Scientists essential to the war effort...
hunter
Apr 2012
#59
I'm an alarmist, though partially a doomer I still think something can be done.
joshcryer
Apr 2012
#40