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My dad says that his priorities are us, then the Earth, then Existence. If protecting the latter would stop him from protecting the former, then it's not worth protecting.
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I suppose they have opposite philosophies then. For mine, it’s, “If there’s no Existence for us to live in, what good do my efforts do on Earth?” Earth being metaphorical, here.