/lit/ - Literature

>>3495853
You don't give the Leavers enough credit, mate. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors survived through ice ages, global thaws, and supervolcanic eruptions that wiped out many less adaptive species -- and they did it with nothing but fire and stone tools and each other. If a meteorite struck today, I'd place my bets on some remote Leaver tribe pulling through relatively unscathed while the global economic machine that keeps us Takers alive ground to a halt.

But I find your post illuminating, for in it I see highlighted the impetus behind the Taker worldview. It's the desire to TAKE CONTROL over who lives and who dies, however illusory and futile that sense of control may ultimately prove. (Compare with the "Leavers," those who are willing to leave this control in the hands of their gods and the forces of nature.)

Another spontaneous mass extinction event will no doubt strike us eventually. But right now I'm more worried about surviving the clear and present danger posed by the ongoing mass extinction of our own manufacture... y'know, the one we brought about in our quest to hijack the life-support systems of our spaceship Earth.

>>3495882
>We are the means by which nature observes itself.
Maybe so, but if we keep this up I worry that there won't be much left for us to observe.