I was told that by my support worker
So if I kill my self I am contributing to the worlds problems and I have a duty to help make the world better
I would like to see where he gets his logic
As far as I can tell, you don't have any duty to this world. You never made the choice to be born, you never were able to consent to life either.
So by having life forced onto you, and by extension the problems that come with life. I don't think you should be expected to have to solve problems that are forced onto you and that you never wanted to be a part of in the first place.
I had a conversation with someone the other day, regarding natalism and making the world better. They said: "
what if my kid will be the one to solve climate change, or cure cancer, etc?"
But my question is why do you feel the need to bring someone into this mess who never had the ability to consent one way or the other. All the while knowing this world has problems and expecting them to solve it for you? Its selfish. Why bring someone into existence, just to weigh them down with these burdens, that they would've never been aware of, or able to experience had they never been born in the first place?
Furthermore, the idea that humans make this world "better" I'd say is laughable at best.
We've squandered and wasted most of the fossil fuels in little over one hundred years, producing more Co2 at levels that have never been seen at any other time in history; In turn destroying the biosphere.
We've over fished, and dumped garbage and toxic sewage waste into the oceans acidifying them. Now we have at the very least damaged over
87% of our oceans. With all the ocean damage the number of "dead zones" (where nothing can live) keep increasing.
"From just 42 in 1950, to 405 in 2008. Dead zones now cover 95,000 square miles; this is the size of the United Kingdom."
The ocean is a big deal, because it is one of our largest carbon sinks. It absorbs a lot of the Co2 we produce, but with so much of it being damaged or dead, this is already not working or viable.
We also continue to cause deforestation; to clear land, to build more, and to farm cattle, and other livestock. But again this eliminates another huge carbon sink.
And all of this still doesn't factor in mining and ripping any resources we can, out of the earth, meat and dairy production, or a million other bad things we are doing as a species
all in the name of ""progress"".
All of this is important because these are some of the most life sustaining things we have on this planet. Without these things we will die. But we as a species are very greedy and short sighted. Only looking towards short term gains; all the while disregarding, and ignoring the long term consequences, and impacts of those actions and choices.
We are literally making everything worse, we are basically shitting where we eat.
We are consuming and killing everything on this planet in the name of progress, yet we are still plagued with the same old problems that we've had since day one. We still are eating, breathing, shitting, pissing, reproducing, dying, apes.
We have been able to come up with innovations and solutions that may make our lives easier and more convenient in one way or another. But have still never been able to evolve past the core problems and issues we have always had.
Nothing has really changed, and we are still prisoners and pawns of biology.
I feel that I'm just going off on a tangent now, but I personally think everything would be better if sentient life (not just humans) simply didn't exist.
Everyday we continue to exist, we consume resources in one way or another always likely contributing to the same destructive cycles that got us here in the first place.
More people = more demand for finite resources that we simply just don't have enough of.
And the worst part about all of this is that we as a species are still no closer to being content or happy. We are inherently dissatisfied, always trying to chase the next quick fix or short term dopamine high.
It's sad really.
