Time is 15:33
Date: 10/19/2025
This has been sitting on my mind for a while and I’d love to hear. The thoughts and solutions or at least choices others would make.
Let’s begin from the start. Let’s say hypothetically you have been doing constant work, trying to stop wars, create peace treaties and guide humanity to a better future collectively since you where 16 but at the same time you bound your ver life on protecting all of life and nature. Not just humanity.
As we continue to grow and expand. Years later. 4 nearly 5 now. It’s come to a crossroads. You have given your final plan to make a better world, and it seems as no one is listening. Are the Leaders responsible for all their citizens? Or should this individual with advanced physics as a magical system force them to follow his directives? Would humanity as a collective even listen or see them as dictator no matter the benefits they gain?
Or should this individual watch as humanity slowly approached the trolly problem? Where it is humanity or every other species. 100s of trillions of species and planet earth. Which lever would you pull?
If they could transport certain groups to safety like Africans, Native Americans and other Indigenous groups would this be a rebalancing or is it eugenics? Even if it is all of humanity but the specific groups already caretaking the land who has been taken advantage of time and time again.
What is wrong and what is right?
After this chose is made rapid evolution on earth for all animals and earth would happen with the specific groups transported to a cousin planet. While the rest of humanity is left to face millions of years of evolution in 5 -10 years.
Has humanity became a virus? Moving beyond a parasite?
You mention s lot of hypotheticals, such as “being able to stop wars” and “moving entire peoples”. You also mention the trolley problem: a problem really only about the morality of choosing and whether you can distance yourself from a choice if it were presented to you.
In truth we can only ever be responsible for the choices that are actually presented to us, which are usually much more small scale. (Most people aren’t invited to any UN meeting for example)
You can try to become more powerful - become such a “leader” - and so try to have to make more impacting choices, but: (1) this involves a lot of hard work and a great deal of luck; and (2) this may come at the cost of others - for example by moving power from a group to an individual.
Of course there is nuance there: it is possible to gain or create power, lead a group in a positive way, and so have a stronger more impacting choices to make and help a group of people, animals, plants, etc; but that is no easy thing to achieve.
If the goal is only to gain more power - even if you would need to remove from others - would that really still help improve society? Would society not be more fair if every person only makes choices regarding their life, instead of dictating the lives of others or have others dictating them?
Really I would focus first on the small sort of choices you are faced with every day. I would also not focus on the scale of the impact, but only on whether or not it is positive: whether or not you are helping you and your surroundings. No matter if that’s by helping with some gardening, doing some light volunteering,… or by visiting loved ones or making art.
By choosing to make the small sort of positive choices we can all collectively make huge positive impacts without ever needing someone to choose for us.
And who knows - relying on the butterfly effect - … maybe those small sort of positive choices can start that positive collective wave and so truely have had a big impact after all.