[ThomPete]

Some future generation is going to go extinct whether by astroid, super nova or end of the universe.

The idea that the coming generations are more important than the current is frankly the most unemphatic thing I have heard in a long time.

[titzer]

> The idea that the coming generations are more important than the current is frankly the most unemphatic thing I have heard in a long time.

You're right. We should definitely continue with the status quo of stuffing our fat faces with slop and burning oil like there's no tomorrow, literally.

[ThomPete]

If you take a couple of steps back and think about this idea that future generations are more important than current ones you would probably realize that it's not such a simple thing to conclude on.

I never said we shouldn't do anything. What I said is that the idea of simply using the well being of the future generations as an argument for how the current generations should behave isn't empathic.

We should do a lot of course among others keep developing new technologies to solve some of the problems that humans create while still allowing the many millions who are poor improve their lives too.

That is the paradoxical discussion here and it's frankly way more important than some strawman about not doing anything here.