Right, but I'm a human being, I am not humanity itself. Humanity is just an idea, it has no agency or conscience. It cannot suffer, it does not want.
As a human being, my primary responsibility is toward myself, to make myself happy, and to arrange the world according to the principles that resonate with my soul.
Toiling to make other people happy at my own expense doesn't make me happy. Even if that was the way it worked, surely the best action would be to line up to work at an Amazon warehouse and bask in opportunity to contribute to the incandescence of Jeff Bezos' prosperity.
> If that is not appealing to you, you should probably off yourself right now.
I don't really see how that follows. I'll die regardless whether it's by my own hands right now or at the hands of external circumstance some years later.
What are the principles that resonate with your soul?
There are certain vile things that when you see them or even think about them you shudder to the very foundation. It may be murder, rape, kidnapping, grievous torture, helplessness, and so forth. Nobody needs to be told this is not the way things should be.
On the other hand, there are other things, when you see them, they bring you a sense that the world is as it should be. It may be things that are awesome, beautiful, or sublime. It may be good craftsmanship, self-sufficiency, human flourishing. It may be small things or large things.
The former are such things I do not want to exist in the world, and the latter are such things I want to exist in the world.
Sounds good to me. Why not exercise whatever talents you have to encourage and promote such things?
If you disagree with me you should definitely continue to decide to live.