<font color="yellow">Does mankind have value?</font><br /><br />As always, there are different perspectives from which to look at this. I specifically think of two: The universal perspective; and the egotistic perspective of humanity.<br /><br />Looking at the question through the universal perspective, the answer is a "No, not really" which stems from the fact that, in the end, nothing we do will really matter in the grand scheme of things. The grand goal being survival, well we just can't accomplish that. Eventually the universe will grow cold, run out of energy, drift apart into nothing, or collapse back into itself. Eventually, we'll be gone and forgotten. This is a very depressing way of looking at things, but I'm just being realistic here. Also, 'value' is a human concept. The universe is not living and is definitely not human. Therefore, we have no value to it.<br /><br />I see it as we'll just have to adopt a different goal from survival. Our new goal will be to survive as long as is humanly, or post-humanly, possible. There's nothing we can do about the end of a human supporting universe, we'll just have to accept that fact and move on.<br /><br />From the egotistic perspective, damn right we have value! Survival is our largest instinct. I value my life and as a whole, we as humanity value our existence as well. We try our hardest to preserve our existence and lives, even if some of our actions are backwards to this goal and we have invented a net of politics and (scarcity) mentality which appear to be self-defeating. None-the-less survival is our largest instinct because we value ourselves.<br /><br />Value being a human concept, we are the only judges of value, and since we value our survival tremendously and we value ourselves, we do indeed, as mankind, have value. As egotistical as we are with survival being of such high value to us, there is no way we can't have value if we are the only judges of it. <br /><br />Does mankind have value?<br /><br />Yes, in