• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    It doesn’t matter. If a living thing “chooses” not to reproduce, it will not pass on its genes, and that decision was detrimental to the species. As such, it no longer exists. This could still be considered a choice, just a flawed one. However, this has taken place trillions of times throughout history, and anything that made that choice was weeded out. You might not understand your purpose, and you might die before fulfilling it, but make no mistake: you have a deep evolutionary instinct to prioritize reproduction over anything else. Everything else consists of instrumental goals that emerge from the primary goal of reproduction. It is literally mathematically, scientifically, psychologically, sociologically, experimentally, and simulatively PROVEN—to the extent science can prove anything and even further thanks to mathematics.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​