This is like a frame of reference thing. Your response is fascinating. It could spark hours and hours of debate. What an amazing response.
If life is growth, the goal is to spread as far and wide as possible. Life will spread to Mars, the moon, and beyond. (Or die trying, and inevitably, literally).
If life is balance, the goal is to exist as long as possible. To which we are not the reproductive system, but the cancer attacking it.
I believe there is a reasonable chance that the existing human generation is the one that will have a global discussion about this as a way to frame balance as a possible goal of humanity. And maybe that discussion will not go well, but simply to have it would be noteworthy.
If life is growth, the goal is to spread as far and wide as possible. Life will spread to Mars, the moon, and beyond. (Or die trying, and inevitably, literally).
If life is balance, the goal is to exist as long as possible. To which we are not the reproductive system, but the cancer attacking it.
I believe there is a reasonable chance that the existing human generation is the one that will have a global discussion about this as a way to frame balance as a possible goal of humanity. And maybe that discussion will not go well, but simply to have it would be noteworthy.