Do you believe you deserve to live? To what end?
Every married person knows that the real test comes after the wedding. Nobody “lives happily ever after.”
So, here we are, on the brink of human civilization destroying itself once and for all, because its self-destructing tendencies have now reached the global level: nobody is going to continue the quest.
While I don’t particularly care, if humanity survives, because I can’t see why it would deserve it, I cannot go along with those, either, who nonchalantly want to take revenge on the mass murderers.
The problem is not in the people; it’s in the system. No matter who would take over, it would end the same way. Those with their eyes open can see the brick wall at the end of the tunnel.
Still, let’s assume, humanity will survive.
Just answer a single question: To what end?
Humans have always excelled at maiming and killing each other, although they have perfected that ability in the Information Age and, with technology enabling them to exercise global control.
I always said, “If it can be done, someone will do it.”
It’s happening.
As Jonah asked God to spare humans, I’m asking you:
Why should He?
Regarding the question of whether humans "deserve" to live:
My apologies for such a long post- I tried to make it as brief as possible. Here we go...
The Torah teaches that every human being is created by God Himself : each receives a custom made "vehicle" or physical body to house a unique soul .
Both are needed to perform a specific role in God's master plan.
Prior to conception, each soul is shown what his life (or next reincarnation ) will entail...
The soul is shown his parents, siblings, his gender, race , country of birth, spouse , neighbors , all of the ways it will be "tested" and the obstacles God will put in his path .
Every soul knows in advance why it is being sent here, what its mission is and which imperfections the soul needs to correct.
(Hang onto your seats- here is the mind blowing part: )
When the briefing is done, the last thing God does before hitting "send", is ask the soul IF IT AGREES TO THE CHALLENGE!
If the answer is "yes", the soul comes down and enters the designated "car" or fetus. Right before birth, an angel taps the fetus on the lips ( the frenulum) causing the soul to "forget" everything it was told before entering the body.
The act of forgetting is what we know as "free will".
Without free will, there are no challenges to overcome, no hard choices to make, and no accountability.
Without free will , concepts like right and wrong, good and evil, REWARD AND PUNISHMENT are irrelevant. As meaningless as "participation prizes".
God does not hand out gold stars for "showing up". We AGREED to show up!
Once we're here, it's up to us to work very hard to fulfill our potential as human beings.
That"potential" means to emulate God's positive qualities in our interactions with the physical world and especially towards our fellow man .
That being said, there is no such thing as being "undeserving" of life.
"Death" means the soul has completed it's mission, or a particular soul abandoned the mission and broke the contract with God.
In the second scenario, the rented "car" returns to it's owner, and the soul returns to spiritual kindergarten . Better luck next time.
Life is a precious gift and opportunity to gain spiritual perfection in this life and eternal life in the Next World.
Contrary to popular opinion, we Jews believe that Heaven is an equal opportunity employer.
It's too basic a question to sum up. It's the first floor above the basement question: Why are even here?
That said, 'will to live' works for me. Also, why people wish to survive is different from the question of why they don't commit suicide, which is the functional end of your question, where its rubber meets the road.
https://youtu.be/3KHM-BZPI7o
As for why should or shouldn't humans survive: from a natural history perspective, the answer would be: because they can (and shouldn't survive if they can't). From a teleological perspective: secular humanism says it's because we CAN create utopia from all this dystopia (faith). Religion says blah blah blah which all boils down to something about love.
Underneath it all, we love living, which is a major part of why suicide is so hard to do.
https://youtu.be/XAhwDx8DasU