> "There's no point to humanity. So many people are suffering. If humanity is extinct, Earth and animals would be happier. They'll certainly be better off. Also no human will then suffer. Human existence is totally pointless."
The path towards Enlightenment is not unlike the five stages of grief. The realization of pain and suffering, the anger towards it, the desire to change it, the depression resulting from realizing our inability to change it, and finally the acceptance of life as it is and the ability to find joy in what we can.
Many of us have been through it and survived, coming out a tad bit wiser. Let's hope that he, too, will be able to find at least something that'll make him realize that it's not so bad after all.