It would make me feel better to less often see people toying with the pro-extinction position.
I have heard this from people a fair amount, and I think the ‘pro extinction because people are often mean/bad/immoral/lazy/pathetic/etc’ is just a bad take that isn’t really grappling with those concepts having meaning at all because of humans being around to think them.
Regardless, it’s a common enough take that maybe it’s worth putting together an argument against it. I actually think that Alexander Wales did a great job of this in the end of his web series ‘Worth the Candle’ when he makes a solid attempt at describing a widely applicable utopia. Maybe somebody (or me) should excerpt the relevant parts to present as a counter-argument to ‘humans are unsalvageably despicable and the only solution is for them to go extinct.’
I have heard this from people a fair amount, and I think the ‘pro extinction because people are often mean/bad/immoral/lazy/pathetic/etc’ is just a bad take that isn’t really grappling with those concepts having meaning at all because of humans being around to think them.
Regardless, it’s a common enough take that maybe it’s worth putting together an argument against it. I actually think that Alexander Wales did a great job of this in the end of his web series ‘Worth the Candle’ when he makes a solid attempt at describing a widely applicable utopia. Maybe somebody (or me) should excerpt the relevant parts to present as a counter-argument to ‘humans are unsalvageably despicable and the only solution is for them to go extinct.’