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RE: The 5 Biggest Questions Facing Humanity Right Now
Biggest? I would rather get answers to more mundane questions like. How to cure (every kind)cancer? How to stop hunger and suffering? and so on. Do the questions you have presented here have a measurable impact on the quality of our lives?
These questions, their answers and a lack of answers can motivate life or suicide, love or selfishness, murder or mindfulness.
I certainly believe they are important questions.
The point you make however is crucial in that spending ones time pondering these questions while failing to do all we can to alleviate the immediate life threatening and torturous conditions which enslave so many is not the least bit enviable and our conscience should steer us toward the latter activities.
How to cure (every kind)cancer? CRISPR!
How to stop hunger and suffering? In Vitro Meat!
I don't think this is about the most urgent questions but, well... the biggest ones.
The questions you pose are certainly not mundane. They are the big questions facing humanity too. And yes, it would have a measurable impact on the quality of our lives because you never know what kind of new questions you can unlock by solving these. And it's not like it's an either/or case. We can work on these questions as well as solve the other problems we are facing. There are enough of us to take on all these :)