Doomed multitudes

Chris · 07 Apr 2005, 15:30 · from 2005-April.txt.gz

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From: rasputin_ at hotmail.com (Chris)
Date: Thu Apr  7 15:30:57 2005
Subject: (urth) RE: Doomed multitudes
In-Reply-To: <4255AF43.3040308 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BAY102-F109E2220BA9D2FEA20118E863E0 at phx.gbl>

Maru said:
>No, it says that life will go on for a little while, and then they
>will all die, forever.

This point has already been discussed a few times in this thread, and what 
you seem to be implying here seems to be ignoring that.

Also, that sentence is... well, just look at it.

>>Because any attempt to predict which future will ultimately colonise the
>>most worlds is pointless speculation. The Green Men may eventually

>May, may may... (How could the Frozen Urthers build any Dyson rings?

>If we cannot be sure of anything, let us do nothing!

If I am not misunderstanding things here, it sounds like you are battering a 
straw man here. I don't think he was suggesting not making any choices at 
all. What he was suggesting was that evaluating "future generations" was not 
a sound basis for making that choice.

And that's arguable. Just not on the terms you're presenting here.

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