Human Extinction - Are there fates worse than extinction?

Are there fates worse than extinction?

Yes. There are many miserable nightmarish possibilities in which people have bad lives. This is being discussed because extinction philosophy has two diametrically opposed schools of thought. One side says human extinction would be good. On the opposite side, the institute’s opinion, is that extinction is bad. We respect both points of view.

Imagine a future with permanent terrible conditions, a totalitarian world-dominating government, enslavement, torture, and oppression, children being forced into sex slavery, horrific child abuse, war crimes, torture, regular terrible health conditions. There is literally no end to the list of imaginable horrible dystopias.

Does humanity even deserve to survive? Is humanity, on the average, inherently too evil to be even able to continue? There are continual instances of widespread evil human behaviors in mankind’s past and present that need to be extinguished for the greater good. But the optimistic viewpoint of the Institute is that the goodness of humanity should be allowed to prevail.

Humanity’s fight against dystopian fates is already a constant ongoing, daily and repeating struggle. This fight is a necessary and regular way of life on many broad fronts like a body’s constant immune system vigilance against always lurking diseases. The constant policing against dystopias is far larger than the limited ambitions of the Institute.

The Institute makes a presumption about humanity surviving. That is, that humanity will at least have the chance to prevent, or recover from, the infinite everyday ongoing dystopias that will always constantly evolve to threaten it. Humanity will make better lives for more humans.

Therefore, the Institute only specializes narrowly in the prevention of human extinction.

Are there fates worse than extinction?

Are there Fates worse than Extinction?