The importance of asking the right questions

How do we reduce mankind's suffering?

By formulating and asking the right questions.

recreational drugs like alcohol and others often interfere with the clear thinking and problem solving in order to actually formulate and ask the right questions.

Once the right questions are asked the people themselves will tend to start to answer these questions themselves and create their own answers and solutions to any given problem.

The real problem is when it is groups of human beings and not individuals we are talking about.

When the questions are macro enough this becomes problematic in itself.

For example, the problems of global warming, overpopulation, western medicine.

As an illustration: Western medicine has done wonders for individuals around the world. It has kept people alive and greatly reduced therefore the grief of people dying too young.

However, simultaneously it has caused overpopulation and the ongoing extinction of most species on earth except humans.

So, as more humans have survived they in turn have babies and only exacerbate the overpopulation problem which further causes extinctions of most species on earth.

So, even though western medicine saves individual lives it also contributes to human extinction and global Warming and the extinction of literally all species on earth.

Unless enough questions are asked in this direction with useful group answers found, it is inevitable that the human race goes extinct barring a pandemic or major war that kills most or part of mankind or a combination of catastrophic weather, war or pandemic events or increased Global Climate change.

So, the human race must become mature enough to ask questions like this so an Armaggedon like event doesn't occur that eventually kills everyone.

In fact I consider the psychological state in people that wants to create an armageddon event is a psychological aberration as well because it would end the existence of all life on earth temporarily or permanently.

So, unless the right questions are asked by enough of mankind extinction is inevitable in the short or long run of all life on earth.