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Hopelessness is a technicality, like absolute darkness.

It's still very, very dark, and you are not arguing in good faith if you keep somehow treating this as a successful consolation

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The idea that we're almost certainly doomed is an extraordinary claim. I haven't seen extraordinary evidence for it.

That was never the claim, firstly, so successful straw man there, and secondly, even if it was, would it really be that shocking? Population bottlenecks have happened for less. All habitat eventually shrinks. All species go extinct.

By the odds, I'm betting with the house.

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