# Should I be smothering my kids in their sleep? (Deliberately provocative title; the answer is no, and I don’t have kids)

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Well, the heat death of the universe seems inevitable. Why should anyone do anything?

In the shorter term either the future is malleable or it isn’t. If it is, why not live your life according to your values and take comfort in the knowledge you did what one human can do? If it isn’t, what you choose to do is an illusion.

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