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I don't mean better for you or me but better in general. Do you believe our species will ever reach some form of enlightenment or will we destroy ourselves?

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[–] tupalos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess it depends on what you mean by destroy. Like literally population 0, I doubt it’ll ever get there. But losing 75% of population, I can see some nuclear war breaking out

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But losing 75% of population, I can see some nuclear war breaking out

Seems pretty likely (eventually). I take hope that I'll be in the direct blast radius, and not a mutilated horribly scarred survivor.

I choose not to think about this one much because it's well outside my circle of influence.

[–] tupalos@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Ya everyday another corrupt superpower is getting that much closer to weapons of mass destruction. I’m sure there’s bio weapons already out there that would destroy huge chunks of the population. But nuclear would also be up there though probably much more difficult to hide