@akiyama I reasoned that there are only two things that could possibly matter: destruction and preservation. I thought about it constantly, and considered many things. It evolved from my trying to reason on what matters to me in life. I couldn't think of anything that struck a chord emotionally, so, I decided to look at it in terms of the big picture. Destruction, death, and waste are all things worth fighting for, all things worth causing, logically. Entropy will destroy us all anyway, right? So, in light of that, nothing else really matters. Now, from another point of view, I decided that doing the utmost to in fact keep entropy at bay, is also noble, because even if all efforts fail and there is no other Universe to escape to when things might in fact go bust here in billions of years, how amazing would it be to keep harmony amongst species until the very end for all of us? Until the final curtain. So, I decided that only one extreme or the other matters: protecting what exists, or destroying what exists as an agent of entropy. At my worst, I'm quite nihilistic, so, I decided I needed to pick something of value, and give my life meaning, even though another side of me tells me that nothing has meaning, and the only purity is being an endless void of energy and nothing more... It might seem cold, but, my decision is a purely logical one, to protect life from rogue agents.
Humans are as natural as anything, and the universe unfolds as it does, we're all atoms interacting. At the same time, humans seem to be, ecologically speaking, an epidemic causing disaster to the biosphere, and therefore many other species on this planet, including ourselves. I decided that the solution to this is harvesting DNA, advancing Biotechnology to the point that incubators can in fact act as wombs to nurture an embryo, and should the worst happen, producing new organisms of a particular species. There are animals that die just because humans find them delicious. The Dodo is an example. Imagine we didn't over farm the Dodo. They'd still be live to this day. Their deaths were not necessary for anything. It did not need to happen. I am by no means a misanthrope. I hate most people, or have said that, but the hate is aimed more at the modern "let me take a selfie" computer obsessed culture that is so characteristic of 21s century modern society. I mean, I know that can change. A lot of what's happening will be rebelled against by future generations who see how stupid people today are on an emotional/cultural level, but, that is the situation today. Not sure you're a Star Trek fan, but we are very nearly becoming like The Borg, when we could instead be something more like Starfleet(I know that sounds childish, but I just mean people can be unique and adventurous and hardy, and equal without sacrificing distinctness of self.) We look back at the late 19th and early 20th century, as the world became industrialized, and wonder how they could have been as stupid as they were, is this not true? Today, we are in the middle of a Cybernetic Revolution. People are learning the ropes. There will be trial and error. It might even cause a new divide among the species. And some solutions will be offered, and the damage done, the species will want repaired, even though in some cases it might be too late. Still, this is an era, and everything is going to change.
The progress has been rapid. I remember the 90's, I was born in 1991. I see how technology and culture has changed in such a short time, and it's still going to rocket towards something new. Hell, with plans to establish colonies on Mars, you just know there are going to be literal interplanetary separatist movements. On a small scale, of course. In this solar system, and on two planets and maybe a few planetary satellites(moons) and asteroids, but still, this is how things are developing. We are in it, we are seeing everything change. As this happens, I feel a need to do something, and I chose preservation of an apparently rare phenomenon: life.