I'd find the other ones.
Although the original question makes an interesting thought experiment (and certainly was only intended as such), like most "lifeboat questions," there's a lot more to it if it were ever to become a real situation.
I can think of nothing at all that would kill almost every person on Earth that would leave the planet with anything remotely resembling a livable biosphere. Even in "I Am Legend," is was stipulated that millions survived the plague, as they would with even the deadliest virus. The hero of the story dismissed this as impossible because he was deeply depressed, and crushed by guilt. Not because it wasn't true.
"Last people on a Mars colony" might be plausible.
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Bingo.
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- A good philosophical question: If you were the last person left alive on Earth?
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- "I Am Legend" scenario
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- Reading your post I am certain you would not survive long
- Your scenario sounds about right
- re: A good philosophical question: If you were the last person left alive on Earth?
- Very logical
- I'd pack up the rifles & handguns...
- I would scourer the earth
- I'd be pretty sick from whatever killed the other 4 billion.
- re: A good philosophical question: If you were the last person left alive on Earth?
- Survival instinct is high in most of our species.
- If you were the last person left alive on Earth?
