“Is life worth livin, should I blast myself” The words and wisdom of the late Tupac Shakur. It’s a question asked almost every day, what’s the meaning of life. To many people, they find a lot of things in life that make them happy and make life worth living. But with so many problems and struggles in the world why would you ever want to bring children into this world? Peter Singer asks the very complicated question, “Should this be the last generations?”
You may chose to not have a child because you believe they will live a life of pain and struggle from something our generation has caused, or because of a genetic disease that has no cure or way of coping. But, I don’t believe that is enough reason to not have children. If you look at the brighter side of life you will find faith in humanity, and faith that we will find solutions to the worlds problems. Who knows? Your child may be the one who changes the world and saves the lives of millions.
Singer also talks about if we could get a global agreement to sterilize everyone so that we could have no children that we would have nothing to worry about and just party. I know he is being sarcastic and that would be pretty ideal, but would never happen. The reality would be that the value of life would become so much more valuable because nobody could carry on your legacy. And with all the problems that already exist in the world most likely war would break out, wiping everyone off the earth much earlier than anticipated.
I understand that singer doesn’t actually believe we should sterilize everyone. But he is bringing up questions that I believe shouldn’t even be issued. With the advances of technology we have made over the last century I have no doubt we will find solutions. There are already so many pieces of technology that are so mind blowing the technology in 10 years will be just even greater. If anything I think we should stop advancing technology so quickly or the world with end up just like in the Terminator.
Even if technology fails us, and the world does fall apart on us, that doesn’t mean it’s the end of the human race. After catastrophes we just rebuild and start over new. This could lead to the world being even better than before because we will have had learned from our mistakes. But no matter what would happen we need to fight for a better world. With hope we will find a solution to all the worlds problems, that’s for sure.
It’s possible sterilization of the world population really could be the best solution to all our problems. But we would never know unless we actually went through the whole process. Then if we realize it was a mistake, there is no going back. Then the world will have even more problems then we ever dreamed of. Singer would be the first to go..
Funny to start off a post about a philosophy with Tupac. And sentences seem weak -- 2nd one fragment, 3rd one comma splice.
ReplyDeleteGlad that you admit he doesn't actually find this a viable option -- many people seem to have missed this point.
WAtch out for cliches -- mind-blowing, brighter side of life
I feel like this needs to dig much deeper into the content of Singer and to make some rhetorical moves. It feels like it skims along the surface and uses too many words to provide too little content.