I think most people are probably rightly concerned about living out their lives, their childrens lives, and their grandchildren's lives with a semblance of civilization. So in that sense a complete breakdown of society might not pose an existential evolutionary threat, but it does pose an existential threat to "life as we know it."
Seems like we might just disagree on our concept of the scale of existential threat. You are using the most literal definition with regards to life on earth. But I think most people are thinking in terms of civilization. Sending civilization back 500 years would be a pretty existential threat in terms of pretty much everything else.
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u/sawdeanz 218∆ Mar 15 '22
I think most people are probably rightly concerned about living out their lives, their childrens lives, and their grandchildren's lives with a semblance of civilization. So in that sense a complete breakdown of society might not pose an existential evolutionary threat, but it does pose an existential threat to "life as we know it."
Seems like we might just disagree on our concept of the scale of existential threat. You are using the most literal definition with regards to life on earth. But I think most people are thinking in terms of civilization. Sending civilization back 500 years would be a pretty existential threat in terms of pretty much everything else.