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Question149

If humanity was dying out due to its own excesses and you , as a scientist, found a way to save it, would you?

• I'd have to check with my attorney. There could be a nightmare of lawsuits. (Steve Knight #855)

• Yes. That was easy.

  Seriously, I think survival is a natural instinct. Even some theists, despite how much they talk about a wonderful afterlife, have a survival instinct. I would like to leave a world for the future generations. Of course, my first thought is my own children. That is just a part of the survival instinct, as well. (ClayeSkye #4)

• Damn straight I would. The preservation of the human race is paramount in my eyes. Then I'd make sure to patent it (what, I can't get rich off saving humanity?). (Eric #197)

• I would try, so long as the solution didn't involve loss of life. If it did, I don't think I would be able to handle the ethical dilemna. (Paul J. Koeck #360)

• Somebody would have to.

  The question is kinda simplistic. Begs the question: at what cost? If I had to risk dying horribly, that might change things.

  How about the knowledge that fossil fuels are finite and that if we don't discover controlled fussion power sources by the time FFs are gone, we're fucked? (The Central Scrutinizer)

• Yes, without hesitation.

  Even if it was a choice between us and every other animal on the planet, I'd choose us. Nuke the whales, I am a humanist.

  Of course, such a choice need not be presented. Humans would be a lot better off if we preserved as many other species as possible, developed sustainable policies for living on Earth and moved expansive, exploitative mining, manufacturing, polluting industries into space. (Niall McAuley #36)

• Selectively, yes. I've always wondered what the planet would be like if the human population was only eight million or so. Just think of the good fishing places you'd be able to find! (chibiabos)

• Yes.

  My ideal, though, would be some sort of selective salvation... You know.. like those religious sorts keep harping on about, only inverted..

  It *would* be nice if the Meme pool had a more selective filter on it 8). (Linktavios #1797)

• For me everything depends on just what the 'cure' was and how it would have to be implimented. If it required killing people indescriminately or instituting some kind of horrible regime of restrictions on the actions of humans I would not do it. (Dr. Necrophage)

• It is a question that I have often pondered my self, and the only answer I can come up with is: It would depend on the cost to the rest of the planet. (Puck #162)