Oh, my version of the universe is quite positive, it just relies on an afterlife
That makes everything you do as important as the chemicals it releases in other people.
10,000 years later what does that mean?
Most(if not all) humans on earth were made by other humans
There is a quote from Syl in either WoK or WoR that goes something along the lines of "When you kill a rock, it's still there, When you kill a spren She's still there, When you kill a person, something leaves, all that's left is meat."
and in RoW the Stormfather says "Spren don't die as men do."