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While creationists would disagree, I believe humans were propelled to our current position in the food chain by the challenges we faced: Predators/prey inspired and developed our speed, stealth, cooperation, and cunning as a defense and a survival skill, as well serving to weed out the weak or infirm, ensuring that each new generation was stronger, and more apt to succeed. The same could be said for plagues, famines, conflicts, and any other challenge we’ve faced as a species – that they have been the fire in which our status as “dominant species” was forged.

Now, we consistently undermine the elements that would strengthen us further. Disease and famine are combated the world over, wars are treated with disdain, the unmotivated or incapable are fostered by the state and breed new generations of the same, and the only predators that remain to hone us are ourselves.

By eliminating most of what drives a creature to improve, how long before we start backpedaling into extinction?
While I support each person’s right to subscribe to whatever views they prefer to give comfort and meaning to their lives, I’d prefer to hear less about the afterlife and more about the question at hand, and how it effects the life/lives before us and our children and our children’s children. When and if the apocalypse ever gets around to coming, or I find myself roasting in a fiery hell, then I’ll be willing to consider such other points as relevant.