{"id":10851,"date":"2023-07-22T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/the-pro-extinctionist-philosopher-who-has-sparked-a-battle-over-humanitys-future\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:37:26","slug":"the-pro-extinctionist-philosopher-who-has-sparked-a-battle-over-humanitys-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/the-pro-extinctionist-philosopher-who-has-sparked-a-battle-over-humanitys-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The pro-extinctionist philosopher who has sparked a battle over humanity\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c9mile Torres has become a thorn in the side of the branch of moral philosophy that advocates prioritising our distant descendants. They explain the danger of utopian movements<\/p>\n

Given all the suffering, pain and destruction produced by humanity, \u00c9mile Torres, who is a non-binary philosopher specialising in existential threats, thinks that it would not be a bad thing if humanity ceased to exist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pro-extinctionist view,\u201d they say, \u201cimmediately conjures up for a lot of people the image of a homicidal, ghoulish, sadistic maniac, but actually most pro-extinctionists would say that most ways of going extinct would be absolutely unacceptable. But what if everybody decided not to have children? I don\u2019t see anything wrong with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\u00c9mile Torres has become a thorn in the side of the branch of moral philosophy that advocates prioritising our distant descendants. They explain the danger of utopian movements
\nGiven all the suffering, pain and destruction produced by humanity, \u00c9mile Torres, who is a non-binary philosopher specialising in existential threats, thinks that it would not be a bad thing if humanity ceased to exist.
\n\u201cThe pro-extinctionist view,\u201d they say, \u201cimmediately conjures up for a lot of people the image of a homicidal, ghoulish, sadistic maniac, but actually most pro-extinctionists would say that most ways of going extinct would be absolutely unacceptable. But what if everybody decided not to have children? I don\u2019t see anything wrong with that.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c9mile Torres has become a thorn in the side of the branch of moral philosophy that advocates prioritising our distant descendants. They explain the danger of utopian movements Given all the suffering, pain and destruction produced by humanity, \u00c9mile Torres, who is a non-binary philosopher specialising in existential threats, thinks that it would not be …<\/p>\n

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