# Charles Dickens on Existential Risk

> “Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask,” said Scrooge

— Charles Dickens


“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”

**Tags:** ethics, non-mormons, christianity, transhumanism, existential risk