Who cares? They'll do what they want. The sad fact is that no matter what happens the Earth will keep turning, it'll still orbit the sun, and when we're gone we will be replaced by some other life form and we won't be missed. At all.
This rock does not give a fuck who or what stands on it.
The funny thing is this: We say that dinosaurs were stupid. Birds. Fish. Reptiles... All stupid. Stupid animals. Yet they all lasted millions of years longer than we could ever hope to...
In spite of all of our grand "accomplishments", human beings are the single least intelligent species to ever walk the Earth. How's that? A dog will never tell you a bedtime story or build a skyscraper. That's just ridiculous! Then again a dog will never actively plot against its own species, or develop technology that will give it the capability to wipe every other dog off the face of the Earth.
Does that make a dog stupid? No, it makes the dog more intelligent than we are. It knows its place in the world. Its sniffs, it eats, it propogates. It fights, it plays. Same as every other species that's not human.
A dog is smart enough to not even try to control something that it has no chance of controlling. And if you think that you - or any person that ever walked the face of the Earth - has ANY chance of influencing the future course of this planet - then you are less intelligent than my dog.
When we do finally succeed in wiping each other out, this big old water-covered rock will continue to spin. Nothing - nothing at all - will miss us. Humans are inconsequential. Irrelevant. We'll kill each other and other species will evolve.
The stupid reptiles, the stupid birds, and the stupid lizards will continue going about their lives long after we are gone.
There is nothing in this galaxy - besides a few expendable humans on planet Earth - that cares if we survive as a species.
This little blue planet will continue to orbit the sun no matter what - or who - is standing on it.
To be honest, I believe that planet Earth - and all of its inhabitants - would be better off if we humans never existed. In spite of everything you believe, we are no more important than anything else that exists on this planet.
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