Why are you bothering to preserve such a shitty world? Saving people from dying of malaria will only lead to more human lives, and therefore more suffering. Even if we solve every problem nature throws at us, humans will keep murdering and torturing and raping each other with our new knowledge and technologies, might will keep marking right, and the ennui of modern society will keep getting worse as more people are born. Stop trying to pretend like it is or ever will be okay.

luchagcaileag:

glorious-spoon:

theunitofcaring:

I think we can reduce suffering a lot. Maybe not to zero, but a lot. And I think that a world that has some suffering in it can still be worth living in. And, more importantly, I don’t actually get to decide whether the world will keep existing. I just get to decide how I live in it.

The difference between a million people in pain and 999,999 people in pain is a person, no longer in pain. I care about that. I don’t care about it any less because there are a million more of them; I wouldn’t care about it any less if there were a trillion more of them. It’s good that I be happy and it’s good that you be happy and every bit of happiness is a good thing in itself, not just a step towards a world that is on the whole ‘okay’.

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.

The universe is cold and uncaring and full of random horror, so we should be kind to each other, and take care of each other, and do the best we can, within our sphere of influence, to make things better. Or at least, not make them worse.

#few things frustrate me more than ~edgy~ nihilism #like #yes the world is shitty#yes suffering is endemic#but that doesn’t mean its okay to just throw up your hands #set it all on fire#and act like there’s no point in making things better if they’ll never be perfect