This doesn't sound like doom and gloom, it sounds like a misunderstanding of some important aspects of human nature, with a bit of reductionist thinking. Akin to "crime is bad, no crime is good, if we get rid of all people, there will be no crime".
Especially given the actual specific times we live in. Do you think when the first person who believed Covid was a hoax, died of Covid, other people who think its a hoax, learned a lesson from them? When the people who were on social media, making fun of people wearing masks and getting vaccinated, died or had loved ones die... did that make others stop, and reassess their stance, and then wear masks and get vaccinated? Some yeah, hopefully, but for many no...
Humans are not a hive mind, that makes huge leaps in progress by analysing failure in understanding, knowledge and consequence and course correcting magically. Often, many of us, have to make small incremental steps, whilst we also sort of drag ourselves slowly. It gets complicated with some bickering about who the people making important steps are and who is the dragging bit... which I won't go into... The main point and my end point, is that there are various thresholds, that we can get to, to insulate and protect ourselves as a species, to help out against other dangers, including ourselves.
Also, as a general issue, thousands of generations past have asked/posed such questions. Everyone is going to die soon, "but this is good though, an end to suffering" some guy in 600 AD. There isn't really a blank state either, humans have had bottlenecks in our population before. Depending to the extent, it will happen again. Climate Change is going to be rough. A nuclear winter before that?
You know OP, if you live long enough, we might get really cool VR technology that will let you experience seeing a simulation of a nuclear bomb. Wouldn't you rather that?
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