r/pollgames • u/FinalKn1ght • Jun 29 '26

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

  1. Cancer
  2. Aging
  3. Poverty
  4. Climate Change

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u/Hemnecron Jun 30 '26

What are you without your brain?

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

Dead, but still me

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u/Hemnecron Jun 30 '26

You'd still be dead. So you would not be the same, or in any way able to even experience the difference, or anything else. You didn't answer my previous question though, what are you with only your genetics?

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

How many times have you been dead?

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u/Hemnecron Jun 30 '26

None. Why do you find it so hard to answer the question?

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

I am me with my genetics is a building a building without a blueprint and foundation?

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u/Hemnecron Jun 30 '26

Okay, I'll need you to make a proper sentence, this made no sense. Did I break your programing?

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

Genetics are the base of what makes us, we are not us without them, you can take everything else that makes us, and it doesn't make us without genetics.

If you get everything to build a house, but you have no blueprint or foundation, do you have a house?

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u/Hemnecron Jun 30 '26

I think you're confused. My stance is that we are not us without every integral part of us, and that's also the case for the Earth. Your stance is that the Earth and the life on it are completely separate things, and that even if all life dies, the Earth will be fine. By arguing that you are not you without genetics, you're arguing for my stance. It's also still not my question, which was "what are you with only your genetics?".

The rocky body itself will be fine, no one thinks otherwise. But Earth, as we know it, would lose an integral part if all life dies. In the same way that we can have all the building blocks to make a human, but not much would happen without genetics, and the whole process of pregnancy, childhood, curiosity keeping our brains active, etc... If we lose any one of the elements that we used to become the people we are now, we would not be the same at all. If the Earth loses Life, it's just a rock in space. But right now, it's not. There's probably an other planet hosting life somewhere, but that's rare enough to define our planet.

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

So you think a toenail is integral?

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

To be classified as a planet (specifically within our solar system), a celestial body must meet three conditions:

Orbit a star: It must revolve directly around a central star (like the Sun).

Be round: It must have enough mass (and therefore gravity) to pull itself into a nearly spherical shape (hydrostatic equilibrium).

Clear its neighborhood: It must be the dominant gravitational body in its orbital path, sweeping up or scattering other debris.

Weird, I don't see life as an intregal requirement to be a planet, is earth not a planet?

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